Test 9 · ★ · Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses…

Wicked, so did Art beat the toads or wot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Art · What happens: beat · To what, where: toads

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beat	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beat	aux
5	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 beat	nsubj
6	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 toads	det
8	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 wot	cc
10	wot	wot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 toads	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past · do-support	Art	the toads or wot					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location toad=Theme

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

Nah, the toads ate him up in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toads	det
4	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 ate	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	past	the toads	him = he			in the end		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he got stuck in the mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mud	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mud	det
8	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl

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

Option 3

Nah, he gave up at the bottom and turned back to the lovely lady's hall for supper

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	17 hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lady	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lady	amod
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hall	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 lady	case
17	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 supper	case
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he			the bottom			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn back	past	he not said here			the lovely lady's hall for supper			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to hall=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he got through the icy hill too

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	through	through	ADP	_	8 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
7	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hill	amod
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
9	too	too	ADV	_	4 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he			the icy hill			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through hill=Destination

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