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Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Yer one cracked a nut, right? Why did the Gallows Bird run off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Yer, Gallows Bird · What happens: crack, run off · To what, where: nut

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Yer one cracked a nut, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cracked	nsubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Yer	obj
3	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nut	det
5	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cracked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cracked	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	3 cracked	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cracked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	Yer	a nut					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=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.

Sentence 2: Why did the Gallows Bird run off?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 run	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bird	det
4	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Bird	compound
5	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 run	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past · do-support	the Gallows Bird						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the whole crowd of neighbours chased him out of the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crowd	amod
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chased	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 neighbours	case
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowd	nmod
6	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chased	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	the whole crowd of neighbours	him = he		the house			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out house=Trajectory

Option 2

the police came in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 police	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the police						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the crowd chased him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crowd	det
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	nsubj
3	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	the crowd	him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

he had been caught stealing the last of the cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 caught	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 last	det
7	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stealing	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cheese	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cheese	det
10	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 last	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		he					tree rules
2	steal	gerund		the last of the cheese					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location last=Theme

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