Test 4 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three sil…

Was the ring thing just a laugh or was it for real, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ring thing, laugh

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1334 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three silly husbands are tricked by clever wives, and one of them runs naked to a burial» 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	4 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laugh	csubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 laugh	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laugh	det
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 it	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 laugh	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	12 real	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ring thing					tree rules
2	is a	past		laugh					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

Just a laugh at first, but the wife who tricked her husband best got the gold ring for real in the end.

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 laugh	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 laugh	det
3	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 laugh	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 tricked	nsubj
11	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wife	acl:relcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tricked	obj
14	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 tricked	advmod
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ring	det
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ring	compound
18	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 real	case
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 got	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 real	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the wife	wife's husband				well property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
2	get	past	a laugh	the gold ring				for real	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme for real=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was for real, the one who fooled hubby best.

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	7 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 one	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fooled	nsubj
9	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
10	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fooled	obj
11	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 fooled	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					for the real one	tree rules
2	fool	past	the real one	hubby				well property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hubby=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was for real, the wife who tricked her husband best got the ring

The tree, 14 words

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	4 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 real	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tricked	nsubj
9	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wife	acl:relcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tricked	obj
12	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 tricked	advmod
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ring	det
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		real property	tree rules
2	trick	past	the wife	wife's husband	well property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
3	get	past	the wife	the ring		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus

Option 4

It was for real, the wife who tricked her husband best got the ring, and the others got nothing at all.

The tree, 21 words

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	4 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 real	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tricked	nsubj
9	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wife	acl:relcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tricked	obj
12	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 tricked	advmod
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ring	det
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 others	det
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 got	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 got	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			real property	tree rules
2	trick	past	the wife	wife's husband		well property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
3	get	past	the wife	the ring			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
4	get	past	the others	nothing	all		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Asset

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