Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…

Yo, his mum said he'd hang off Dublin bridge, bet she was right, eh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, he · What happens: say, hang off, be · To what, where: Dublin bridge, bet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hang	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hang	aux
8	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 hang	compound:prt
10	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bridge	compound
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bet	punct
13	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bridge	appos
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 right	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bet	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eh	punct
18	eh	eh	INTJ	_	8 hang	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	his mum			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hang off	would	he	Dublin bridge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	mum	bet not said here	right property	tree rules

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

yes, his mum was right about the bridge in Dublin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Dublin	case
11	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his mum			Dublin		about the bridge; right property	tree rules

Option 2

she was right, he did hang off the bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hang	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hang	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hang	aux
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	parataxis
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 hang	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bridge	det
10	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					right property	tree rules
2	hang off	past · do-support	he	the bridge					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					right property	tree rules

Option 4

he was right

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	3 right	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					right property	tree rules

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