Test 11 · ★ · Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb…

Did the priest keep the wee lass hidden from everybody?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: priest · What happens: keep, hide · To what, where: wee lass, everybody

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1985 «Beside the Fire, Guleesh, part 4: the girl is struck dumb and Guleesh hides her at the priest's house» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lass	det
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lass	amod
7	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lass	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 everybody	case
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 hidden	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the priest	the wee lass					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lass=Theme
2	hide	participle		the wee lass not said here		everybody			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from everybody=Beneficiary

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

Nah, not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, he kept all the neighbours and visitors away from the house for weeks on end

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 neighbours	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neighbours	det
7	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 visitors	cc
9	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 neighbours	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 weeks	case
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 end	case
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	all neighbours and visitors			on end; week	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme on end=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he hid her from folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	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 hid	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 folk	case
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he	her = she		folk			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Patient from folk=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he kept them all away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	them = they				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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