Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

Sheep trying to kill everyone, that's mental, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sheep · What happens: try, kill, be, innit · To what, where: everyone

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mental	nsubj
2	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Sheep	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kill	mark
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trying	xcomp
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 kill	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mental	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 mental	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mental	cop
9	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 mental	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	gerund	Sheep not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sheep not said here	everyone		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
3	is	present	Sheep		mental property	tree rules
4	innit	infinitive				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 · ✓ the right answer

Proper gutted, the lads all legged it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 legged	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Proper	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lads	det
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 legged	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 legged	advmod
7	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle						properly property	tree rules
2	leg	past	the lads	it				all property	tree rules

Option 2

Proper gutted, the lads all legged it up the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 legged	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Proper	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lads	det
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 legged	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 legged	advmod
7	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legged	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 legged	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 legged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle						properly property	tree rules
2	leg up	past	the lads	it				all property	tree rules

Option 3

Proper gutted, the lads all legged it up the trees and sat there ages

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 legged	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Proper	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lads	det
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 legged	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 legged	advmod
7	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legged	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 legged	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 legged	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 legged	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	participle				properly property	tree rules
2	leg up	past	the lads	it		all property	tree rules
3	sit	past	the lads not said here	ages	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location age=Theme

Option 4

Proper scary, the lads all scarpered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 scary	advmod
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lads	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lads	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lads	det
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 scarpered	advmod
7	scarpered	scarper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lads	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scarper	participle		the scary lads not said here				all property	tree rules

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