Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…

Was that roe proper hard to catch, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: catch

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1185 «Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, duck and salmon and wins back his sister» 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	Was	was	ADP	_	3 roe	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 roe	det
3	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	obl
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 catch	mark
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hard	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

She kept jumping to another peak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 peak	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 peak	det
6	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	She						tree rules
2	jump	gerund	She not said here					to another peak result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to peak=Result

Option 2

Covan kept missing her because the rain made his bow slip badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	xcomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 missing	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 slip	nmod:poss
10	bow	bow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slip	amod
11	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Covan			tree rules
2	miss	gerund	Covan not said here	Covan		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	make	past	the rain	rain's bow slip	badly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slip=Product
4	slip		rain			nom slip «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The dog gave up the hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 gave	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunt	det
6	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the dog	the hunt					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Source

Option 4

She leapt to a far crag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leapt	nsubj
2	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 crag	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crag	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crag	amod
6	crag	crag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leapt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leapt	past	She					to a far crag	tree rules

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