Test 8 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

Was Cael a grand sport about helping with the house?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: grand sport · What happens: be, help · To what, where: Cael

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Cael	cop
2	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sport	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sport	det
4	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sport	amod
5	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 helping	mark
7	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sport	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helping	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sport	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Cael					tree rules
2	help	gerund	a grand sport not said here					with the house	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with house=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

He refused to help build the house and sat sulking by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
10	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sulking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	He			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not help	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	build not said to happen	infinitive	He not said here	the house		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
4	sit	past	He not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sulk	gerund	He not said here		by the fire	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He helped build the house quickly, carrying timber from the wood to the hill

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 build	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 build	aux
3	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obj
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 build	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 carrying	punct
8	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 build	advcl
9	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	He	the house				quickly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product
2	carry	gerund	He not said here	timber		the wood		to the hill	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent timber=Theme from wood=Initial_Location to hill=Destination

Option 3

He offered to help build

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 offered	xcomp
5	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	offer	past	He	tree rules
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	build not said to happen	infinitive	He not said here	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He refused to help build

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	refuse	past	He	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not help	to-infinitive	He not said here	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	build not said to happen	infinitive	He not said here	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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