Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…
Was Guleesh's horse a proper horse at the end or a dud?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: horse
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | 4 horse | cop |
| 2 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Guleesh | case |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | csubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horse | amod |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 dud | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dud | det |
| 13 | dud | dud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Guleesh's horse | 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
It stayed a fine horse, a proper one, carrying Guleesh home to Erin
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carrying | punct |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stayed | advcl |
| 12 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 home | compound |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Erin | case |
| 15 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | It | a fine horse | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme horse=Location | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Guleesh home | Erin | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to erin=Destination |
Option 2
It was a plough beam all along, but it had been a horse for the whole ride back
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beam | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beam | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 beam | det |
| 4 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beam | compound |
| 5 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 along | advmod |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 beam | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 horse | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 horse | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 horse | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beam | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ride | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ride | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ride | amod |
| 18 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | nmod |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 ride | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a plough beam but a horse | along property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | it | a horse | for the whole ride | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A plough beam, total eejit prank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beam | det |
| 2 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beam | compound |
| 3 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prank | punct |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prank | amod |
| 6 | eejit | eejit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prank | compound |
| 7 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beam | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Just a horse, a proper one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 horse | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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