Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…
Did the king's son, like, get to live?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get, live · To what, where: son
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 9 get | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Did | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 get | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king's son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, Conall's lot spared him, sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 spared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spared | punct |
| 3 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Conall | case |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | nsubj |
| 6 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spared | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spared | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past | Conall's lot | Conall | sure property | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, Conall's children had killed him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 killed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Conall | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Conall's children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
Option 3
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 4
Nah, Conall's boys had done him in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 done | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boys | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Conall | case |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | iobj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 done | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Conall's boys | Conall | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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