Test 6 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hai…
Did Fiachna get the cow for free, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fiachna · What happens: get · To what, where: cow
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1068 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hailstorm sends Mongan into Faery, where a feast and a tale begin» 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 get | aux |
| 2 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 free | case |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 get | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | Fiachna | the cow | for free | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for free=Source |
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
No, he went bail for it and promised to pay later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bail | bail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 pay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | bail | for bail | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bail=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | he not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | late property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yes, he paid the full price
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 paid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 price | det |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 price | amod |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | he | the full price | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, he went bail for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bail | bail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | bail | for bail | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bail=Theme |
Option 4
No, he paid for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 paid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | he | for it | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
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