Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Ir…

did them lads just leg it when cockcrow went?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lads · What happens: do, go · To what, where: them

This is test 6 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 did	obj
3	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 leg	advmod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lads	nmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
8	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		them = they					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	go	past	lads leg						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

yeah, they vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 vanished	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanished	nsubj
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	they						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, they legged it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 legged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	nsubj
4	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	they	it					tree rules

Option 3

yeah, they all just vanished into thin air when it went off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 vanished	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vanished	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 vanished	advmod
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanished	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 went	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vanished	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	they			thin air			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go off	past	air						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, they fought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	they						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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