Test 14 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Gutted, what did his mum hope for him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: gut, do, hope

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hope	nsubj
7	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hope	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			tree rules
3	hope	present	his mum	for him = he	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that he'd try an honest trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 try	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trade	det
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trade	amod
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	would	he	a honest trade					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Eventuality

Option 2

that he'd learn a trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 learn	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trade	det
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	he	a trade					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic

Option 3

that he'd try an honest trade in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 try	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trade	det
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trade	amod
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	would	he	a honest trade		town			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Eventuality

Option 4

that he'd find some work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 find	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	he	some work					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic

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