Test 10 · ★ · Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses…

Gutted for Art, that climb up the ice was brutal, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gutted Art, ice · What happens: gut, climb up, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1066 «Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses monsters and dangers, then fights Dog Head and Morgan» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Art	amod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 Art	case
3	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 climb	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 climb	punct
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 climb	nsubj
6	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 climb	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brutal	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brutal	cop
11	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 climb	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	6 climb	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 climb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	climb up	present	Gutted Art		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the ice	brutal 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

Yeah, he slipped back every single time he climbed, which made the whole ice hill take him days to get over

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 slipped	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl:unmarked
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 climbed	nsubj
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slipped	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hill	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hill	amod
16	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hill	compound
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
18	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 made	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	obj
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	advcl
23	over	over	ADV	_	22 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	slip back	past	he					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	climb	past	he	every single time not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location time=Theme
3	make	past		the whole ice hill		time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hill=Product
4	take	infinitive			him = he	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	get over	to-infinitive					over property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, he got to the top on the first try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 try	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 try	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 try	amod
11	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he			the first try		to the top result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result

Option 3

Nah, he rode a horse up the icy slope with ease and reached the palace gates before dawn

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 rode	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 slope	det
9	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slope	amod
10	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 ease	case
12	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slope	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reached	cc
14	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gates	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gates	compound
17	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reached	obj
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 dawn	case
19	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride up	past	he	a horse					tree rules
2	reach	past	he not said here	the palace gates			dawn		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he slipped back ten steps each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 slipped	advmod
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 steps	nummod
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slipped	obj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip back	past	he	ten steps			time		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent step=Patient

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