Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Sick, what did the widow do when he proposed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: widow · What happens: sick, do, propose · To what, where: widow

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 proposed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sick	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 widow	det
6	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 proposed	aux
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 proposed	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 proposed	nsubj
10	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 proposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sick	infinitive	widow not said here		tree rules
2	do	past		the widow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Eventuality
3	propose	present · do-support	widow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

shrank back in horror and fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 shrank	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 horror	case
4	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shrank	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fled	cc
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 shrank	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink back	past				horror			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	flee	past							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

turned away in fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 turned	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn away	past				fear		away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

shrank back in horror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 shrank	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 horror	case
4	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shrank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink back	past				horror			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

shrank back in fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 shrank	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shrank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink back	past				fear			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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