Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Were the cattle grand, or what happened in the cowshed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cattle · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: cowshed

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grand	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cattle	det
3	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grand	nsubj
4	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 happened	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grand	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cowshed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cowshed	det
11	cowshed	cowshed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cattle					grand property	tree rules
2	happen	past				the cowshed			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cowshed=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

the boy loosened their ties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loosened	nsubj
3	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ties	nmod:poss
5	ties	tie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loosened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	loosen	past	the boy	their ties					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tie=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the boy sold the cattle to the neighbours at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cattle	det
5	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 neighbours	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neighbours	det
8	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	the boy	the cattle	the neighbours		dawn		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme to neighbour=Recipient

Option 3

the boy untied their ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 untied	nsubj
3	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ropes	nmod:poss
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 untied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	untie	past	the boy	their ropes					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient

Option 4

the boy loosened all their ropes and let them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loosened	nsubj
3	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ropes	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ropes	nmod:poss
6	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loosened	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 loosened	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	loosen	past	the boy	their ropes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
2	let out	infinitive	the boy not said here	ropes = rope					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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