Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…
Dead giant's gonnae get wrecked, aye? What did the horses dae to him?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wreck, do · To what, where: Dead giant, horses, giant
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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
Sentence 1: Dead giant's gonnae get wrecked, aye?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 giant | amod |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrecked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 giant | case |
| 4 | gonnae | gonnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 wrecked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 6 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 aye | punct |
| 8 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 6 wrecked | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrecked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | infinitive · passive | Dead giant | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What did the horses dae to him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horses | det |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | dae | dae | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 horses | flat:foreign |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the horses | giant | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
bit and kicked him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicked | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 bit | cc |
| 3 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kicked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | bit | him = he | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
kicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
stamped on him hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 stamped | obl |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 stamped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | on him = he; hard property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
kicked and stamped on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stamped | cc |
| 3 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 kicked | conj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stamped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | stamp | participle | on him = he | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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