Test 7 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of th…

Did Cael promise anything to get out of it, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cael · What happens: promise, get out · To what, where: anything, it

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promise	aux
2	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promise	nsubj
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 promise	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 it	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 promise	iobj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Cael	anything					tree rules
2	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cael not said here	it					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

Yeah, he swore he'd pay the rent of Thessaly and the rent of Lochlann and a load of gold, boy, every year

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pay	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swore	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rent	det
9	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Thessaly	case
11	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rent	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rent	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rent	det
14	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rent	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Lochlann	case
16	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 rent	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 load	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 load	det
19	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rent	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 gold	case
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 load	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 boy	punct
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rent	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	swear	past	he		year	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pay	would	he	the rent of Thessaly and the rent of Lochlann and a load of gold and boy		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
3	rent			Thessaly		nom rent «possession transitive»: of=patient
4	rent			Lochlann		nom rent «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he swore he'd pay the rent of Thessaly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pay	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swore	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rent	det
9	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Thessaly	case
11	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	swear	past	he		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pay	would	he	the rent of Thessaly	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
3	rent			Thessaly	nom rent «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he swore he'd pay the rent of Thessaly every year and give Fionn his boat and his hounds, sound

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pay	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swore	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rent	det
9	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Thessaly	case
11	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rent	nmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pay	conj
16	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 give	iobj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 boat	nmod:poss
18	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hounds	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hounds	nmod:poss
21	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 boat	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sound	punct
23	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	swear	past	he	sound			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pay	would	he	the rent of Thessaly		year	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
3	give	infinitive	he not said here	Fionn's boat and Fionn's hounds	Fionn		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Recipient boat=Theme
4	rent			Thessaly			nom rent «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Yeah, he swore he'd send gold to Lochlann

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 send	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swore	xcomp
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Lochlann	case
10	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	he						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	send	would	he	gold	Lochlann				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to lochlann=Destination

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