Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

Dude, did the lad really pin his master's coat or was that just a dream?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, lad · What happens: do, pin, be · To what, where: lad, dream

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1736 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, part 60: the Irishman learns from an Eagle where the Princess is» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 pin	advmod
7	pin	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lad	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coat	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 master	case
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 dream	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dream	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 dream	mark
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 dream	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dream	det
17	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the lad	tree rules
2	pin	present	the lad not said here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	Dude not said here	a dream	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

Nah, it was a dream, but the pin was real, proper weird, the whole thing was mental

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dream	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dream	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dream	det
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 real	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pin	det
10	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 real	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 real	cop
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dream	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weird	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 weird	amod
15	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 real	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mental	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mental	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mental	cop
21	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 real	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a dream		tree rules
2	is	past	the pin		real property	tree rules
3	be		the pin not said here			tree rules
4	is	past	the whole thing		mental property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he pinned it twice, proper sneaky, and the master never noticed a thing till morning

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pinned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pinned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pinned	nsubj
4	pinned	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pinned	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 pinned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sneaky	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sneaky	amod
9	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pinned	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 noticed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 noticed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 master	det
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noticed	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 noticed	advmod
15	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pinned	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noticed	obj
18	till	till	ADP	_	19 morning	case
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noticed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	past	he	it				twice property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not notice	past	the master	a thing			morning		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he pinned it twice, proper sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pinned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pinned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pinned	nsubj
4	pinned	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pinned	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 pinned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pinned	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sneaky	amod
9	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pinned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	past	he	it				twice property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he only pinned it once, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pinned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pinned	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pinned	advmod
5	pinned	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pinned	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 pinned	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 pinned	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	past	he	it				once property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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