Test 8 · ★ · Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses…

Sound, what's the deal with Art's sword then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sound · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sound	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 sword	case
8	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sword	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Art	case
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sword	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sound	the deal				with Art's sword	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

It was long and very heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 long	cop
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heavy	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					long property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was blue-hilted and wide-grooved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hilted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hilted	aux:pass
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hilted	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 blue	punct
5	hilted	hilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grooved	cc
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grooved	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 wide	punct
9	grooved	groove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hilted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hilt	past · passive		It					tree rules
2	groove	participle							vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It was silver-bladed and very old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bladed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bladed	aux:pass
3	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bladed	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 silver	punct
5	bladed	blade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 old	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bladed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blade	past · passive		It					tree rules

Option 4

It was sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sharp	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sharp	cop
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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