Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Guleesh: the herb wakes Mary,…

What did the two lads do while they waited?

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

This is test 8 · ★ 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	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	5 lads	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lads	nummod
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 waited	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 waited	nsubj
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	do	present	the two lads	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	past	lads = lad	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

sat up all night talking about old times and the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 sat	compound:prt
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl:unmarked
5	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 night	acl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sea	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sat up	imperative	you not said here				night		tree rules
2	talk	gerund	all night not said here				time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

walked round the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 yard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 yard	det
4	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past						round the yard	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round yard=Trajectory

Option 3

sat up all night and prayed for her soul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 sat	compound:prt
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 prayed	cc
6	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sat	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 soul	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soul	nmod:poss
9	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sat up	imperative	you not said here				night		tree rules
2	pray	past	you not said here					for her soul	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for soul=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sat up all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 sat	compound:prt
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sat up	imperative	you not said here				night		tree rules

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