Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryde…

Was Pryderi, like, salty about shoemaking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Pryderi

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1332 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryderi's hands stick to a golden bowl» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Pryderi	cop
2	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 salty	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 salty	case
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 salty	punct
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Pryderi	appos
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 shoemaking	case
8	shoemaking	shoemaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Pryderi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Pryderi					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 · ← Mova's choice

he thought it was lame

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lame	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lame	cop
5	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					lame property	tree rules

Option 2

it was boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 boring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boring	cop
3	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

he wanted to fight, bro

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fight	mark
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	bro					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he thought it too peaceful

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 peaceful	advmod
5	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he	it				peaceful property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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