Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Ir…

yeah but how long was she stuck there, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 stuck	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stuck	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stuck	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuck	cop
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuck	nsubj
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stuck	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			there		mate vocative; long, stick 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 · ← Mova's choice

like sixteen years or summat, been stuck there ages, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	INTJ	_	3 years	discourse
2	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuck	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 summat	cc
5	summat	summat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 stuck	aux:pass
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stuck	advmod
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuck	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ages	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle · passive		sixteen years or summat		there			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme age=Destination

Option 2

she'd been stuck up there for sixteen years, the poor thing, mate

The tree, 13 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	4 stuck	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stuck	aux:pass
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stuck	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	past · perfect · passive		she		there	year		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sixteen years, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj

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

Option 4

sixteen-ish, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ish	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 sixteen	punct
3	ish	ish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ish	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	sixteen ish						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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