Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Guleesh: the herb wakes Mary,…

When Mary finally woke, what was her face like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mary · What happens: wake, be · To what, where: face

This is test 9 · ★ 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 woke	advmod
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 woke	nsubj
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 woke	advmod
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 face	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woke	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 face	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 face	cop
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	like	like	ADP	_	9 face	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 face	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	Mary					finally property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past		Mary's face					tree rules

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

like one who had forgotten her name, her house and her family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 forgotten	obl
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 forgotten	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgotten	aux
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgotten	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 family	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 family	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect		her name and her house and her family				like one	tree rules
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

like she had no clue where she was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 clue	det
5	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 was	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clue	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no clue					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

like a child who had got lost at the fair and could not find home

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lost	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 fair	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fair	det
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lost	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lost	conj
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive				the fair		like a child	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	not find	could		home					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic

Option 4

as if she were lost in a strange place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 lost	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 lost	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 place	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		she		a strange place			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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