Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…

So why did Maurice say yes, be real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maurice · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1305 «Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 real	cop
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Maurice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	is	infinitive						real property	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

he was just lapping up the free drink in the pub that night

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	4 lapping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lapping	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lapping	advmod
4	lapping	lap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lapping	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drink	det
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drink	amod
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lapping	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pub	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pub	det
11	pub	pub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drink	nmod
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lapping	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lap up	past · progressive	he	the free drink			night	in the pub	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme in pub=Attribute

Option 2

the drink was in him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 him	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 him	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the drink					in him = he	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the drink was strong in him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 strong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the drink					in him = he; strong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he was dead scared

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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