Test 9 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

What were the grandkids sayin' about them, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: grandkids sayin

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sayin	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sayin	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sayin	det
4	grandkids	grandkid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sayin	compound
5	sayin	sayin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 sayin	punct
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sayin	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 sayin	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sayin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the grandkids sayin				about them = they	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

Lift it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	imperative	you not said here	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

They'd never have touched the pot

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	5 touched	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 touched	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 touched	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 touched	aux
5	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	would · perfect	They	the pot					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pot=Co-Theme

Option 3

Never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They'd never have lifted the lid

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	5 lifted	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lifted	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 lifted	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lifted	aux
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lid	det
7	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lifted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lift	would · perfect	They	the lid					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme

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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