Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

Was the sieve any use, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: sieve

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sieve	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sieve	det
3	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	csubj
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sieve					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

Aye, once she plastered the whole thing with clay and moss and rushes, it finally held water

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 plastered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 plastered	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plastered	nsubj
5	plastered	plaster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 held	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plastered	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 clay	case
10	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 moss	cc
12	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clay	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rushes	cc
14	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plastered	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 held	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 held	nsubj
17	finally	finally	ADV	_	18 held	advmod
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plaster	past	she	the whole thing	with clay and moss; once property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Destination with clay=Theme
2	rush	present	she not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	past	thing	water	finally property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, once she plastered it thick with yellow clay and moss, it held the water fine

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 plastered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 plastered	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plastered	nsubj
5	plastered	plaster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plastered	obj
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plastered	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 clay	case
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clay	amod
10	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thick	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 moss	cc
12	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clay	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	nsubj
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	obj
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 held	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plaster	past	she	it				once, thick property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hold	past	moss	the water				fine property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, once she plastered it with clay, it held

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 plastered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 plastered	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plastered	nsubj
5	plastered	plaster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 held	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plastered	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 clay	case
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plastered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plaster	past	she	it				with clay; once property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with clay=Theme
2	hold	past	clay						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it kept leaking till she sealed it with moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	leaking	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 sealed	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sealed	nsubj
8	sealed	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sealed	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 moss	case
11	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it			tree rules
2	leak	gerund				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	seal	past	she	it	with moss	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with moss=Instrument

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