Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

What's the deal with the red garter, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 garter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garter	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garter	amod
8	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garter	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the red garter and bro						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

Tom wanted a marker so he'd know the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 marker	det
4	marker	marker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 know	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Tom	a marker					tree rules
2	know not said to happen	would	Tom	the field					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He tied it on a bush to find it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bush	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bush	det
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tied	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	He	it				on a bush	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on bush=Co-Patient
2	find	to-infinitive	He not said here	bush				late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tom tied it round a boliaun so he'd find it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 boliaun	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boliaun	det
6	boliaun	boliaun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 find	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tied	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	Tom	it				round a boliaun	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	find	would	Tom	boliaun			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

To mark the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	to-infinitive		the gold					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Destination

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