Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: th…

that riddle was well mad, the dog without a tail and the coat without a tail

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: riddle · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1058 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: the Carl stops for blackberries while Fionn waits for news» 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 riddle	det
2	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 mad	advmod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dog	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tail	det
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 coat	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coat	det
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	conj
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 tail	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tail	det
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that riddle					without a tail; the dog without a tail and the coat obl; mad, well property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, it was a clever one, boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boy	punct
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a clever one and boy					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, the riddle was too easy, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 easy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 riddle	det
4	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mate	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the riddle					easy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, the Carl didn't even get it, boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Carl	det
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	past · do-support	the Carl	it				boy vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, dunno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 dunno	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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