Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Ir…

what's the pin all about, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pin · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pin	det
4	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 about	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	1 what	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	ADP	_	1 what	case
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the pin					about 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

wakes him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wakes	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 wakes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present		him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

keeps him still tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keeps	obj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 tight	advmod
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present		him = he				tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

sends him off to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sends	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 sends	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sends	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	present		him = he					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

knocks him right out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 knocks	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 out	advmod
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 knocks	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present		him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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