Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

Mate, how long did he search before he nearly topped himself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: search, top · To what, where: himself

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 search	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 search	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 search	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 search	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 search	nsubj
7	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 topped	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 topped	nsubj
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 topped	advmod
11	topped	top	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 search	advcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 topped	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 search	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past · do-support	he					Mate vocative; long property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	top	past	he	himself = he				nearly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Co-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

Three years, bruv, through forests and wilds and deserts, and he nearly gave up

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bruv	nmod:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forests	punct
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 forests	case
7	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bruv	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wilds	cc
9	wilds	wild	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forests	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 deserts	cc
11	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forests	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 gave	advmod
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bruv	acl:relcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he	bruv Three years not said here				nearly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three years, bruv, through forests and wilds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forests	punct
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 forests	case
7	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wilds	cc
9	wilds	wild	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forests	conj

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

Option 3

Two years, bruv, through rain and mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bruv	nmod:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rain	punct
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 rain	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bruv	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mud	cc
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bruv	conj

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

Option 4

Three years, mate, over hills and rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	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
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hills	punct
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 hills	case
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rivers	cc
9	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hills	conj

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

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