Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

and the women laughed at the bloke on the pipes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: women · What happens: laugh · To what, where: bloke

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 women	det
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bloke	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 pipes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pipes	det
10	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laughed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the women			the bloke		on the pipes	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yeah, he had his legs out on the pipes and was playing a sad song

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 pipes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pipes	det
10	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 playing	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 playing	aux
13	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 song	det
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 song	amod
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have out	past	he	his legs		the pipes		out property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	play	past · progressive	he not said here	a sad song					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he had his legs out on the pipes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 pipes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pipes	det
10	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have out	past	he	his legs		the pipes		out property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he was playing the pipes badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 playing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 playing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 playing	aux
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pipes	det
7	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 playing	obj
8	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	he	the pipes				badly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he had his legs stuck out on the pipes while the women laughed at him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 legs	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 stuck	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 pipes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pipes	det
11	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stuck	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 laughed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 women	det
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	his legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	stick out	participle		his legs not said here	the pipes		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on pipe=Destination
3	laugh	past	the women			at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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