Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tell…

Yo, was the giant's eye, like, fully blinded or just gammy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, blind · To what, where: eye

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 eye	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eye	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blinded	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eye	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	7 eye	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blinded	punct
11	fully	fully	ADV	_	12 blinded	advmod
12	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 gammy	cc
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 gammy	advmod
15	gammy	gammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blinded	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 blinded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the giant's eye					tree rules
2	blind	participle · passive		the giant's eye				fully property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he could still see, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	he	bruv			still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bruv=Stimulus

Option 2

He lost the other eye, mate

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eye	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the other eye and mate					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was blinded, totally gutted

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	3 blinded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blinded	aux:pass
3	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 blinded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past · passive		He					tree rules
2	gut	participle						totally property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was just gammy.

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	4 gammy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gammy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 gammy	advmod
4	gammy	gammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gammy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					gammy property	tree rules

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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