Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…

Why did Conall want the horse so bad, sound?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Conall · What happens: want · To what, where: horse

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 want	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sound	punct
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Conall	the horse				bad property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme

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

For his sons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 sons	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sons	nmod:poss
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Or his sons would be hanged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 hanged	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sons	nmod:poss
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hanged	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hanged	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hanged	aux:pass
6	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	would · passive		his sons					tree rules

Option 3

Or his sons would be drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 drowned	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sons	nmod:poss
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drowned	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drowned	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 drowned	aux:pass
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	would · passive		his sons					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

To save them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		them = they					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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