Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian fre…

So Ian's chilling with the raven, the bird's his bff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ian · What happens: chill

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 chilling	advmod
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chilling	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ian	case
4	chilling	chilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 raven	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 raven	det
7	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chilling	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bff	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bff	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 bird	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bff	nmod:poss
13	bff	bff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chilling	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill		Ian					with the raven	nom chilling «process transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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

Aye, the raven's his best mate, they share the knife and the stable, innit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	11 share	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mate	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 raven	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mate	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 mate	amod
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aye	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 share	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 share	nsubj
11	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knife	det
13	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 share	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stable	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stable	det
16	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knife	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	they	the knife and the stable and innit					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, the raven's his wee partner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 partner	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 partner	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 raven	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 partner	nmod:poss
7	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 partner	amod
8	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, the raven's just a wee bandit that follows Ian about, pal

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 bandit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bandit	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 raven	case
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 bandit	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bandit	det
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bandit	amod
9	bandit	bandit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 follows	nsubj
11	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bandit	acl:relcl
12	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 follows	obj
13	about	about	ADV	_	11 follows	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pal	punct
15	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bandit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	the raven's wee bandit and pal	Ian				about property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the raven's his wee boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 boss	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boss	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 raven	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boss	nmod:poss
7	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boss	amod
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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