Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian fre…

Mate, the horse can go over sea and land, is it sick or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: go, be · To what, where: sea

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1142 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian frees the knight's daughter, kills the giant, and is left behind on the island» 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	14 sick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 land	cc
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sea	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sick	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sick	nsubj
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sick	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	the horse			sea and land			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location
2	is	present	horse					Mate vocative; sick property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, it's pure class, pal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 class	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 class	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 class	cop
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pal	punct
8	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 class	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	pure class and pal					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it's just a horse, pal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 horse	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pal	punct
9	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a horse and pal					tree rules

Option 3

Aye, it's a wee bit strange, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 strange	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 strange	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 strange	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strange	obl:unmarked
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strange	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					a wee bit obl:unmarked; mate vocative; strange property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it cannae go ower the sea, it's just a horse, pal

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	cannae	cannae	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	ower	owe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 go	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ower	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 horse	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 horse	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 horse	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pal	punct
16	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go		it					owe property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	sea	a horse and pal					tree rules

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