Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Guleesh: the herb wakes Mary,…

Okay, what did Mary do after her sip?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mary · What happens: do, sip

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 sip	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sip	nmod:poss
9	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Mary				after Mary's sip		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	sip		Mary						nom sip «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

went off into a sound sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 went	compound:prt
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sleep	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	compound
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past				a sound sleep			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

dropped off into a heavy kip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 dropped	compound:prt
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 kip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kip	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kip	amod
6	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off	past				a heavy kip			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into kip=Trajectory

Option 3

dropped off into a heavy kip right there on the floor by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 dropped	compound:prt
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 kip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kip	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kip	amod
6	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 dropped	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 fire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off	past				a heavy kip; there		on the floor; by the fire	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kip=Source on floor=Trajectory by fire=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

dropped off into a heavy kip for a whole day and night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 dropped	compound:prt
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 kip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kip	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kip	amod
6	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off	past				a heavy kip	day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into kip=Trajectory

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