Test 3 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of th…

Wasn't Cael dead gone when the Carl kicked his boat, boy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cael, Carl · What happens: not be, kick · To what, where: boat

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1059 «Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of the Iron is beaten and the Carl is revealed as a god» 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	5 gone	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 gone	advmod
3	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gone	amod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 kicked	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 kicked	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Carl	det
8	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kicked	nsubj
9	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 boat	nmod:poss
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kicked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boat	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 kicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Cael					go property	tree rules
2	kick	past	the Carl	Carl's boat and boy					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent boat=Patient

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

Nah, seven leagues.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 leagues	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leagues	nummod
4	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leagues	punct

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, out to sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 out	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 out	punct
3	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 out	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 out	punct

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

Option 3

Yeah, the Carl drowned him in the bay, boy, dead sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 drowned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Carl	det
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drowned	nsubj
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drowned	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bay	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bay	det
9	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drowned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bay	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bay	punct
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sure	amod
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drowned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	the Carl	him = he		the bay and boy			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the Carl kicked it seven leagues out to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Carl	det
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kicked	nsubj
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	obj
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 leagues	nsubj
8	leagues	league	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kicked	ccomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 leagues	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 sea	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leagues	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	the Carl	it					tree rules
2	league out	present	seven					to sea	tree rules

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