Test 6 · ★ · Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses…
Honestly, why did the monsters even attack Art?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monsters · What happens: attack · To what, where: Art
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 8 attack | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Honestly | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 attack | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 attack | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monsters | det |
| 6 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attack | nsubj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 attack | advmod |
| 8 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 attack | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 attack | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past · do-support | the monsters | Art | honestly property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=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 · ✓ the right answer
The witch sent them as fake dangers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 dangers | case |
| 6 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dangers | amod |
| 7 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the witch | them = they | as fake dangers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 2
Because Art had stolen the golden cup from the witch's palace and angered all of the spirits in the hills
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 stolen | mark |
| 2 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cup | amod |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 witch | case |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 angered | cc |
| 14 | angered | anger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 angered | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 spirits | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spirits | det |
| 18 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 all | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hills | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hills | det |
| 21 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 angered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · perfect | Art | the golden cup | the witch's palace | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cup=Theme from palace=Source | |||
| 2 | anger | past | Art not said here | all | the hills | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus all=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
They were the servants of the king who wanted revenge for the death of his favourite hound
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 servants | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 servants | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 servants | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 servants | parataxis |
| 10 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanted | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 death | det |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hound | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hound | nmod:poss |
| 16 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hound | amod |
| 17 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 death | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | They | the servants | of the king | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | past | the servants | revenge | for the death of king's favourite hound | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme | |||
| 3 | die | king's favourite hound | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 4
They were hungry for Art's flesh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | cop |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 flesh | case |
| 5 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Art | case |
| 7 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hungry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | for Art's flesh; hungry property | tree rules |
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