Test 8 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three sil…

Was the young one's wife, like, bawling as well, or just the old lot?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, bawl · To what, where: wife, old lot

This is test 8 · ★ 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	6 wife	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	compound
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	10 bawling	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bawling	punct
10	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	10 bawling	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 as	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lot	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 lot	cc
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 lot	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lot	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lot	amod
18	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bawling	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 bawling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the young one's wife					tree rules
2	bawl speech: other	gerund		the old lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

She was bawling too, sat right under the saddle with the rest of them, proper gutted.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bawling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bawling	aux
3	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 bawling	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bawling	parataxis
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 saddle	advmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 saddle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 saddle	det
10	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 rest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saddle	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rest	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gutted	punct
17	proper	properly	ADV	_	18 gutted	advmod
18	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sat	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bawling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bawl speech: other	past · progressive	She			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past		the saddle	with the rest of them	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saddle=Theme
3	gut	participle			properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, she was sat by the fire and didn't cry at all.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	aux:pass
5	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cry	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cry	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cry	advmod
12	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sat	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 cry	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · passive	the fire	she					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	not cry speech: express	past · do-support	the fire not said here			all			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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

She was bawling too, sat right under the saddle with the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bawling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bawling	aux
3	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 bawling	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bawling	advcl
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 saddle	advmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 saddle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 saddle	det
10	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 rest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bawl speech: other	past · progressive	She						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	She not said here			the saddle		with the rest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under saddle=Location

Option 4

Nah, she was quiet, sat by the door.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
7	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 quiet	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					quiet property	tree rules
2	sit	participle	she not said here					by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location

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