Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…

How did the horse get his big racket going, ken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse, big racket · What happens: get, go, ken, racket · To what, where: big racket

This is test 2 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 racket	nmod:poss
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 racket	amod
8	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 get	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ken	punct
11	ken	ken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 get	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the horse	horse's big racket	tree rules
2	go	gerund	horse's big racket not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ken	infinitive			tree rules
4	racket		horse		nom racket «event intransitive»: poss=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

He stamped his hooves on the floor

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 stamped	nsubj
2	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hooves	nmod:poss
4	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stamped	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stamped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	past	He	his hooves		the floor			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent hoove=Theme on floor=Destination

Option 2

He reared and bucked in the stall

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 reared	nsubj
2	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bucked	cc
4	bucked	buck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reared	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stall	det
7	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rear	past	He						vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	buck	participle	He not said here			the stall			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He kicked and stamped in the stable

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 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stamped	cc
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stable	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stamped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	He						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	stamp	past	He not said here			the stable			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stable=Destination

Option 4

He neighed

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 neighed	nsubj
2	neighed	neigh	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	neigh	past	He						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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