Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…

What did Conall do up the tree, honest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Conall · What happens: do up · To what, where: tree

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1989 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft from the king's stable, then a tale of cats» 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	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 do	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honest	punct
9	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do up	past · do-support	Conall	the tree					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

He shook the branch

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 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 branch	det
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	He	the branch					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Patient

Option 2

He killed one cat with his sword and fell

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 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cat	nummod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sword	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sword	nmod:poss
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	He	one cat				with cat's sword	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cat=Patient with sword=Instrument
2	fall	past	He not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He killed one cat that climbed to the top branch

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 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cat	nummod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 climbed	nsubj
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cat	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 branch	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 branch	det
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branch	amod
10	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	He	one cat					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	climb	past	one cat			the top branch			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to branch=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He killed one cat

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 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cat	nummod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	He	one cat					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

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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