Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Bear, part 21: the prince…

did the posset knock him out proper, or was he faking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: posset, he · What happens: knock out, fake · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1296 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Bear, part 21: the princess loses her children one by one, then follows her husband on the last journey» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knock	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 posset	det
3	posset	posset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knock	nsubj
4	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knock	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 knock	compound:prt
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 knock	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faking	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 faking	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 faking	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 faking	nsubj
12	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 knock	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 knock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past · do-support	the posset	him = he				properly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	fake	past · progressive	he						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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

he dozed off, but was awake

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	2 dozed	nsubj
2	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 dozed	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 awake	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dozed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	past	he						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past						awake property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

proper out, he slept sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	proper	proper	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 proper	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 proper	parataxis
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proper out	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	sleep	past	he	sound					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

Option 3

nah, he was awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 awake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 awake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awake	cop
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

it knocked him out for a whole day and he woke up with no memory of the night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	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 knocked	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 woke	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 woke	nsubj
11	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 woke	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 memory	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 memory	det
15	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woke	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 memory	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past	it	him = he			day		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	wake up	past	he					with no memory of the night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with memory=Instrument

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