Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian fre…

Ye reckon the sixteen stable boys are gonnae cause bother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ye, sixteen stable boys · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: gonnae cause bother

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 boys	nummod
5	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boys	amod
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bother	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bother	cop
8	gonnae	gonnae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bother	amod
9	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bother	compound
10	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ye						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the sixteen stable boys	gonnae cause bother					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

Aye, pal, they're mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	7 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pal	punct
3	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aye	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mad	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mad	cop
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					mad property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they're just lads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lads	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lads	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lads	advmod
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	lads					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, they'll be busy wi the stable, mate, nae bother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 busy	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 busy	cop
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	wi	wi	ADP	_	9 stable	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stable	det
9	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stable	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bother	punct
13	nae	nae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bother	amod
14	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stable	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	they					wi the stable and mate and nae bother; busy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, they'll be wantin the horse, pal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 wantin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wantin	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wantin	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wantin	aux:pass
6	wantin	wantin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wantin	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pal	punct
10	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wantin	future · passive		they					tree rules

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