Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…

Ya reckon Guleesh was dead scared when the fairies came?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Guleesh, fairies · What happens: reckon, be, come

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Ya	Ya	X	_	2 reckon	advmod
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scared	amod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckon	ccomp
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fairies	det
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	imperative	you not said here		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Guleesh	scared property	tree rules
3	come	past	the fairies		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, he was properly frightened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 frightened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux:pass
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		he				properly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, he was fine about it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was more gutted for the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 girl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		he				for the girl	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was shaking badly when they first came near him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 shaking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shaking	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shaking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shaking	aux
5	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 shaking	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shaking	advcl
11	near	near	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past · progressive	he					badly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	they					near him = he; first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location

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