Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56…

Did you clock the tailors coming out of his hairs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tailors · What happens: do, come out · To what, where: you, hairs

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1331 «Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah dresses as a young man, rides a magic horse, and turns the fairy into a toad» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Did	obj
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailors	det
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Did	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tailors	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 hairs	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hairs	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hairs	nmod:poss
10	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coming	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		you					tree rules
2	come out	gerund	the tailors not said here	his hairs					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result

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

Yeah, three of them, lounging by the pond and knitting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 three	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 three	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lounging	punct
7	lounging	lounge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 three	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lounging	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knitting	cc
12	knitting	knitting	NOUN	_	10 pond	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lounge	gerund						by the pond and knitting	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pond=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Proper mad, four of them, sitting in the nest and sewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mad	advmod
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 four	punct
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 mad	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 four	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 mad	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nest	det
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sewing	cc
13	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				the nest and sewing			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location

Option 3

Nah, two of them, standing in the pond and cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 standing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 standing	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 two	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 standing	punct
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cooking	cc
12	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pond	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	two of them			the pond and cooking			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pond=Location

Option 4

Proper mad, four of them came out of his hair, sitting in the nest and sewing away like mad

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mad	advmod
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 four	punct
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 mad	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 four	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 hair	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hair	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 came	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 nest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nest	det
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sitting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sewing	cc
18	sewing	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sitting	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 sewing	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 mad	case
21	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	mad	his hair			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result
2	sit	gerund	mad not said here		the nest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
3	sew away	gerund	mad not said here			like mad; away property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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