Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Mad, what happened to the bull in the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bull	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bull	det
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bull	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to the bull in the end	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

they ate it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

they killed it and sold the meat at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sold	cc
5	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meat	det
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 market	case
9	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	they	it					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	sell	past	they not said here	the meat		market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent meat=Theme at market=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they killed it for meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 meat	case
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	they	it				for meat	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

they killed it and ate it for meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ate	cc
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 meat	case
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	they	it					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	eat	past	they not said here	it				for meat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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