Test 9 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Right, so the raven's no a bad guy then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	10 guy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guy	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 guy	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guy	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 raven	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 guy	det
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 guy	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 guy	amod
10	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 guy	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 guy	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, it tricked the brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	it	the brothers					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient

Option 2

Nah, it was dead loyal in the end, helping the lad all the way

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 loyal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loyal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loyal	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loyal	amod
6	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loyal	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helping	punct
11	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 loyal	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lad	det
13	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helping	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 way	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helping	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				in the end	loyal property	tree rules
2	help	gerund		the lad				all way obl:unmarked	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was dead loyal in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 loyal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loyal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loyal	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loyal	amod
6	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loyal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				in the end	loyal property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it was dead loyal in the end, though it had pecked the brothers blind

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 loyal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loyal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loyal	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loyal	amod
6	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loyal	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pecked	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 pecked	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pecked	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pecked	aux
14	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 loyal	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brothers	det
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blind	nsubj
17	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pecked	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				in the end	loyal property	tree rules
2	peck	past · perfect · passive		end					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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