Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

Why did the lady greet the hardest the third time?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: lady · What happens: greet · To what, where: hardest

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1302 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 greet	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 greet	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 greet	nsubj
5	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hardest	det
7	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 greet	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hardest	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 greet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past · do-support	the lady	the hardest					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Theme

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

Cause she kent the sea wid tak him doon in the mornin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kent	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kent	nsubj
3	kent	kent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wid	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wid	nsubj
6	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tak	tak	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wid	obl
9	doon	doon	ADV	_	6 wid	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mornin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mornin	det
12	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wid	obl
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 mornin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kent	infinitive	she						tree rules
2	wi	past	the sea			the mornin		tak him = he; doon property	tree rules

Option 2

Cause it wis her very last chance tae see him ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 wis	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wis	nsubj
3	wis	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chance	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wis	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 last	advmod
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chance	amod
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chance	acl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 see	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wi	present	it	her = she					tree rules
2	see	infinitive	last chance not said here	him = he			ever; again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

Cause her faither wis angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 faither	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 faither	nmod:poss
3	faither	faither	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	wis	wis	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 angry	amod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faither	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cause it wis her last chance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 wis	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wis	nsubj
3	wis	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chance	nmod:poss
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chance	amod
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wis	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wi	present	it	her last chance					tree rules
2	chance		her = she						nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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