Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

So which bird was late, and what was its excuse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: be · To what, where: excuse

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 late	advmod
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 late	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 late	cop
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 excuse	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 excuse	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 excuse	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 excuse	cop
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 excuse	nmod:poss
11	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 late	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which bird					late property	tree rules
2	is a	past		bird's excuse					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

The big Eagle, said it came way further, from over the mountains and across the sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eagle	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Eagle	amod
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Eagle	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
9	further	further	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mountains	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 mountains	case
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 mountains	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountains	det
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sea	cc
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mountains	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the big Eagle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	Eagle			the mountains and the sea		further property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The big Eagle, said it came way further

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eagle	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Eagle	amod
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Eagle	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
9	further	further	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the big Eagle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	Eagle					further property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The little wren, said it was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wren	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wren	amod
3	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wren	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tired	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little wren						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	wren					tired property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The big Eagle, said it came way further than anyone and had to rest on the way

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eagle	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Eagle	amod
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Eagle	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
9	further	further	ADV	_	11 anyone	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 anyone	case
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 way	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the big Eagle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	Eagle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the big Eagle not said here		tree rules
4	rest	to-infinitive	the big Eagle not said here	the way	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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