Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…

Did the fairy riders get home on proper horses or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy riders · What happens: do, get

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 riders	det
3	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 riders	amod
4	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 horses	case
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horses	amod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 horses	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the fairy riders					on proper horses; home property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on horse=Source

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

Nah, on brooms and sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 brooms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brooms	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 brooms	case
4	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sticks	cc
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brooms	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, on fine white horses, but they rode them all the way home

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horses	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 horses	case
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Yeah	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rode	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 rode	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	nsubj
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 way	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rode	obl
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	horses = horse	them = they				all way obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

On carts and old ponies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 carts	case
2	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ponies	cc
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ponies	amod
5	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carts	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nah, on old brooms and sticks that they had turned into riding mounts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 brooms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 brooms	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brooms	amod
5	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sticks	cc
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brooms	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 turned	nsubj:pass
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turned	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 brooms	acl:relcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 mounts	case
13	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mounts	compound
14	mounts	mount	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect · passive		old brooms and sticks		riding mounts			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into mount=Trajectory

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