Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…

What did the sheehogue do with his foot, like what was the trick?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheehogue, foot · What happens: do, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheehogue	det
4	sheehogue	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 foot	nmod:poss
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trick	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	14 trick	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 trick	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trick	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trick	det
14	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foot	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the sheehogue	with sheehogue's foot and the trick	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	sheehogue's foot and the trick	like the trick	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 right answer

Tripped the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tripped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past		the princess					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Agent

Option 2

Pushed her down quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pushed	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Pushed	compound:prt
4	quick	quick	ADV	_	1 Pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	past		her = she				quick property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Hooked her ankle hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hooked	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ankle	nmod:poss
3	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hooked	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Hooked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hook	past		her ankle				hard property	vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme ankle=Extent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Stretched it out to block her path so she fell right over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stretched	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Stretched	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 block	mark
5	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stretched	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 path	nmod:poss
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 block	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stretched	advcl
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 over	advmod
12	over	over	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past		it		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	block	to-infinitive		her path		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=Theme
3	fall	past	she		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1984-pg7885-part3/t8/