Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

Conall's lad said what to the wife, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Conall	case
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 wife	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Conall's lad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Why didn't you let the king have what he wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 have	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 wanted	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	you	the king	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
2	have	present			tree rules
3	want	past	king		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 2

Why didn't you just let the king get his way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	you	the king					tree rules
2	get	infinitive	the king not said here	king's way					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Why didn't you let the king do what he wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	aux
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 let	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	you		the king				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient what=Theme
2	want	past	king						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Why didn't you let the king do what he wanted, and why'd you go and bring the lads along

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 let	ccomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 wanted	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 go	advmod
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bring	cc
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lads	det
21	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bring	obj
22	along	along	ADV	_	19 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	you			tree rules
2	do	present	the king			tree rules
3	want	past	king			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	go	would	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	infinitive	you not said here	the lads	along property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lad=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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