Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Guleesh: the herb wakes Mary,…

How did it end for the pair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: end

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1987 «Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Guleesh: the herb wakes Mary, and they wed» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 end	nsubj
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 pair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pair	det
7	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past · do-support	it					for the pair	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

they got hitched and had a big family and no bother at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hitched	hitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 family	amod
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bother	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bother	det
11	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 family	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	past	they			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hitch	participle	they not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	they not said here	a big family and no bother	all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they got hitched and had no bother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hitched	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hitched	aux:pass
3	hitched	hitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hitched	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 bother	det
7	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hitch	past · passive		they					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	have	past		no bother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bother=Patient

Option 3

they got hitched in a big feast and moved off far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hitched	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hitched	aux:pass
3	hitched	hitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 feast	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 feast	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feast	amod
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hitched	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 moved	cc
9	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hitched	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 moved	compound:prt
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	9 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hitch	past · passive		they		a big feast			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	move off	past						away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they wed and lived quite well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wed	nsubj
2	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lived	cc
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wed	conj
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	present	they						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	live	past	they not said here					well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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