Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tell…

What did the cats do when the lads turned on them, honest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cats, lads · What happens: do, turn

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1990 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tells the king of a tree-breaking cat fight, then of a giant's cave and a stolen ring, and ends stranded on an island» 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 cats	det
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 turned	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lads	det
8	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 honest	punct
13	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turned	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the cats		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	the lads	on cats = cat; honest property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory

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

They were chased off by the lads with spades, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chased	aux:pass
3	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 chased	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 lads	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lads	det
7	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chased	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 spades	case
9	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chased	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spades	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	past · passive	the lads	They				with spades and mate	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They sat and purred, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 purred	cc
4	purred	purr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	They					mate vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	purr	participle	They not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They fought back, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 fought	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past	They						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They ran off, scarpered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scarpered	punct
5	scarpered	scarper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ran	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	They						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scarper	participle	They not said here						tree rules

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