Test 13 · ★ · Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves th…

Why was it dead hard tae light the fire again, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, light · To what, where: fire

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses him» 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 hard	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hard	expl
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hard	amod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	advcl
6	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	7 light	mark
7	light	light	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 light	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						hard property	tree rules
2	light	imperative		the fire			again	mate vocative	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

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

Because the rain had soaked everything and they had nae matches left, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 soaked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soaked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soaked	aux
5	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 mate	advcl
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 soaked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soaked	conj
10	nae	nae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 matches	amod
11	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 had	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soaked	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	soak	past · perfect	the rain	everything	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	have	past	they	nae matches	tree rules
3	leave	participle	nae matches not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The wood was aw wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wet	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wet	cop
4	aw	aw	ADV	_	5 wet	advmod
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They had nae matches

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nae	nae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 matches	amod
4	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	nae matches					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Patient

Option 4

They had nae matches and the wood was aw soaked by the rain

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nae	nae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 matches	amod
4	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 soaked	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soaked	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 soaked	aux:pass
9	aw	aw	ADV	_	10 soaked	advmod
10	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 rain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rain	det
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	nae matches					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Patient
2	soak	past · passive	the rain	the wood					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source

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