Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

Yo, was the cake any good after all that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cake · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1988 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches and a sieve of water» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 good	nsubj
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 good	conj
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 all	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cake					any, good property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was smashed to bits and had blood in it, so the witches binned it all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 smashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smashed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smashed	aux:pass
5	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bits	case
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smashed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smashed	conj
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 binned	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 binned	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witches	det
16	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 binned	nsubj
17	binned	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smashed	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 binned	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smash	past · passive		it	bits	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to bit=Destination
2	have	past		blood	blood	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
3	bin	past	the witches	blood		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, grand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	grand	grand	INTJ	_	1 Yeah	discourse

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

Option 3

Nah, it got smashed and it was all bloody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	smashed	smashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bloody	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bloody	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bloody	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 bloody	advmod
10	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	it					smashed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it					all, bloody property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was smashed and had blood in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 smashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smashed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smashed	cop
5	smashed	smashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smashed	conj
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					smashed property	tree rules
2	have	past		blood		blood			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

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