Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

Yo, how many witches were sat round the fire by the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: end · What happens: sit · To what, where: many witches

This is test 2 · ★ 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 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witches	amod
5	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	aux:pass
7	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · passive	the end	many witches				round the fire	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve, sure, all with horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sure	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sure	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 horns	case
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 all	nmod

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

Option 2

Twelve, sure, all with horns, and the mistress was frozen in the doorway by then

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sure	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sure	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 horns	case
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 all	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 frozen	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 frozen	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mistress	det
11	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frozen	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 frozen	aux:pass
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sure	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 doorway	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 doorway	det
16	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frozen	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 then	case
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		the mistress		the doorway			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 3

Seven, sure, all lying down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sure	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 lying	nsubj
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sure	parataxis
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	gerund	all					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Twelve, sure, all with horns, and they were singing a rhyme the whole time round the fire

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sure	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sure	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 horns	case
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 all	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 singing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 singing	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 singing	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 singing	aux
12	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sure	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rhyme	det
14	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obl:unmarked
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	horns = horn	a rhyme			time	round the fire	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rhyme=Theme

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