Test 1 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…
Mate, did the Black Hag actually get her twenty cows or what?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Black Hag · What happens: get · To what, where: twenty cows
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1069 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hag | det |
| 5 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hag | compound |
| 6 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 cows | nummod |
| 11 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cows | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the Black Hag | Hag's twenty cows | Mate vocative; actually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, she took the lot, no bother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bother | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 bother | det |
| 9 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | she | the lot | no bother obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No way, she turned them down flat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 turned | compound:prt |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn down | past | she | no way | flat property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 3
No way, she turned the twenty cows down flat and went home grumbling loudly
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cows | det |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cows | nummod |
| 8 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 15 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 14 grumbling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | she | no way | down, flat property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | she not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | gerund | she not said here | loudly property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
No way, she turned the cows down flat and cursed the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cows | det |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 9 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cursed | cc |
| 11 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cursed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn down | past | she | no way | down, flat property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | |||
| 2 | curse | past | she not said here | the king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
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