Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

What did the feet-water say, the sound thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: feet · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feet	det
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feet	conj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	compound
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the feet and water						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 · ✓ the right answer

"I'm scattered on the ground, my path's to the Lough"

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 scattered	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 scattered	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scattered	aux:pass
4	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scattered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Lough	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 path	nmod:poss
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Lough	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Lough	cop
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Lough	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lough	det
14	Lough	Lough	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scattered	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 scattered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter in a quote	present · passive		I		the ground			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination
2	is in a quote	present	my path					to the Lough	tree rules

Option 2

I'm poured out, my road runs to the Lough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 poured	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	aux:pass
3	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 poured	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 runs	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 road	nmod:poss
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 runs	nsubj
8	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Lough	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lough	det
11	Lough	Lough	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour out	present · passive		I					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	run	present	my road					to the Lough result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lough=Result

Option 3

I'm scattered on the floor, my way's to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 scattered	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scattered	aux:pass
3	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scattered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 scattered	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scattered	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 way	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	present · passive		I		the floor		's my way; to the sea	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on floor=Destination

Option 4

Something about water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 water	case
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod

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

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