Test 5 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three sil…

Did the young fella chat with the spinning women or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, spin · To what, where: young fella chat

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chat	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chat	amod
4	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chat	compound
5	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 women	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 women	det
8	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chat	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 women	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the young fella chat				with the spinning women	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Eventuality
2	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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

Yeah, he went right up to them and asked them if the town was a good place to live, proper.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 them	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	obj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 place	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 place	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 place	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 live	mark
20	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 place	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 proper	punct
22	proper	properly	ADV	_	20 live	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			up them = they; right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up they=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here		them = they		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the town	a good place			tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	he not said here			properly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he asked them about the town and that.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 that	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 town	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he		them = they			about the town that	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about town=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he asked them if the town was a good place to live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 place	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 place	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 place	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 place	amod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 live	mark
14	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 place	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he		them = they	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the town	a good place		tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he asked them where the ring was kept.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 kept	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux:pass
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 asked	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he		them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	keep	past · passive		the ring					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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