Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

Bro, why did the rock let Bernez live?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rock, Bernez · What happens: let, live · To what, where: Bernez

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 let	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the rock	Bernez				Bro vocative	tree rules
2	live	infinitive	Bernez not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause the cross he carved made it holy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cross	det
3	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carved	nsubj
5	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	acl:relcl
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive	the cross not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	carve	past	cross	the cross not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme
3	make	past	the cross	it	holy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

cause he was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cause not said here				nice property	tree rules

Option 3

cause he prayed really hard to God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prayed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prayed	nsubj
3	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prayed	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 God	case
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	cause					hard property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

cause the sea was calm that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 calm	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	cop
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calm	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the sea				day	calm property	tree rules

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