Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

Yo, wha'd the husband do to the fairies, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband · What happens: do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» 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	_	7 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	wha	wha	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Yo	flat:foreign
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 fairies	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fairies	det
10	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fairies	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	the husband					to the fairies and bro	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

shouted at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle						at them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

made the sign of the cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cross	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cross	det
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the sign of the cross					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
2	sign			the cross					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

made the sign of the cross and prayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cross	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cross	det
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prayed	cc
8	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	the sign of the cross	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
2	pray	past		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	sign		the cross	nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

made the sign of the cross three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cross	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cross	det
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 made	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the sign of the cross			time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
2	sign			the cross					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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