Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Ir…

who's the little lad, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: little lad

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1735 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Irishman frees the Princess but is pinned to sleep by the lad» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lad	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lad	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 anyway	punct
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 lad	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the little lad				anyway property	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

his mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

fair-haired, comes to make food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 haired	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 fair	punct
3	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 comes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 haired	punct
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comes	xcomp
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	fair haired						tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	fair haired not said here	food					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 4

dark-haired, brings the dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 haired	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 dark	punct
3	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brings	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brings	punct
5	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinner	det
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present		the dinner					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme

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