Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Ir…

so what's the Irishman's big mistake, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: big mistake, Irishman · What happens: be, mistake

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Irishman	det
5	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mistake	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Irishman	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mistake	amod
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mistake	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Irishman's big mistake and mate						tree rules
2	mistake		the Irishman						nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he falls asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 falls	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	he					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he drinks the bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drinks	nsubj
2	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottle	det
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	he	the bottle					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient

Option 3

he wakes up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

he nods off early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nods	nsubj
2	nods	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 nods	compound:prt
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 nods	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod off	present	he					early property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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