Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Like, what did the lad and the Gallows Bird do with the loot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gallows Bird · What happens: do · To what, where: lad

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Gallows	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gallows	det
9	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Bird	compound
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 loot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 loot	det
14	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lad					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality
2	do	present	Gallows Bird					with the loot	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

shared it out equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shared	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 shared	compound:prt
4	equally	equally	ADV	_	1 shared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share out	past		it				equally property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

split it down the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 split	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 split	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split down	imperative	you not said here	it					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Patient middle=Result

Option 3

buried it in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 buried	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 field	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 field	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past		it		the field			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in field=Destination

Option 4

split it down the middle and went off to the pub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 split	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 split	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 split	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 split	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 went	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 pub	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pub	det
11	pub	pub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split down	imperative	you not said here	it					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Patient middle=Result
2	go off	past	you not said here					to the pub	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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