Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…

Was Guleesh chill about helping her, or did he bottle it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Guleesh, he · What happens: be, chill, help, do, bottle · To what, where: Guleesh

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1984 «Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the sheehogues to a wedding feast, and the princess is carried off» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Guleesh	cop
2	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chill	nsubj
3	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 helping	mark
5	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 chill	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helping	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chill	parataxis
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bottle	nsubj
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bottle	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		Guleesh		tree rules
2	chill	present	Guleesh			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	help	gerund	Guleesh not said here		Guleesh	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
4	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bottle		he			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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he grabbed her and rode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rode	cc
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	he	her = she					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	ride	past	he not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he was brave, he swept her up and rode off down the road to Erin

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 brave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brave	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swept	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swept	nsubj
8	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	parataxis
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swept	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 swept	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rode	cc
12	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swept	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 rode	compound:prt
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rode	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Erin	case
18	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				brave property	tree rules
2	sweep up	past	he	her = she				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Trajectory
3	ride off	past	he not said here		Erin	the road		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent down road=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Right, he took her up and rode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rode	cc
8	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	he		her = she				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
2	ride	past	he not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He hesitated a long while, then at last lifted her up behind him and galloped off

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hesitated	nsubj
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 while	amod
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hesitated	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lifted	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 lifted	advmod
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 lifted	mark
9	last	last	ADV	_	10 lifted	advmod
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifted	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 lifted	compound:prt
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifted	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 galloped	cc
16	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 galloped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	He		while		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	lift up	past	He not said here	her = she	then	behind him = he; last property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme behind he=Destination
3	gallop off	past	He not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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