Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gorla of the Flocks, part 50: Covan fe…

did Covan still go after the cows the next morning?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, go · To what, where: Covan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1184 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gorla of the Flocks, part 50: Covan feeds the raven, herds the cows through fire and flood, and is sheltered by two friends» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	conj
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 cows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cows	det
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Covan					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covan=Eventuality
2	go	present					after the cows; still; morning		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

nah, he stayed put

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he						tree rules
2	put	participle	he not said here						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he rose at sunrise and searched straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sunrise	case
6	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 searched	cc
8	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 searched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	he				sunrise		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	search	past	he not said here					away property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he got up at dawn and went straight to find them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	he		dawn		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past	he not said here			straight property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 4

yeah, he woke early and hunted them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 woke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woke	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 woke	nsubj
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 woke	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hunted	cc
7	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woke	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hunted	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 hunted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	he					early property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hunt down	past	he not said here	them = they					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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