Test 11 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

How'd the husband end up liftin' it, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband · What happens: end up · To what, where: liftin

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 end	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 end	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 like	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	liftin	liftin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 liftin	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 end	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	the husband	liftin					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 · ✓ the right answer

She kept on at him

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 kept	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep on	past	She					at him = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at he=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She begged him every day

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	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	She		him = he		day		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

He was bored of her

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 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of her = she; bored property	tree rules

Option 4

She kept nagging him until he gave in

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nagging	nag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nagging	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 gave	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	She		tree rules
2	nag	gerund	She not said here	him = he	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	give in	past	he		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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