Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tell…

Why did Conall even pretend to be a doctor, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Conall · What happens: pretend, be · To what, where: doctor

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pretend	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretend	aux
3	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pretend	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 pretend	advmod
5	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 doctor	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 doctor	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 doctor	det
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pretend	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doctor	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pretend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · do-support	Conall						tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	Conall not said here	a doctor and bruv					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

To steal the giant's gold, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 steal	mark
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steal	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	to-infinitive		the giant's gold and bruv					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To get close enough to steal the giant's sword and ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 close	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 steal	mark
6	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 close	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sword	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ring	cc
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sword	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive						close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	steal	to-infinitive		the giant's sword and ring					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To get close and trick the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trick	cc
5	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive						close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	trick	infinitive		the giant					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient

Option 4

To sneak up close and then make the giant take his sword off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sneak	mark
2	sneak	sneak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sneak	compound:prt
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sneak	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 make	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 make	advmod
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sneak	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	obj
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sword	nmod:poss
12	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sneak up	to-infinitive				close property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	infinitive		the giant	then		tree rules
3	take off	infinitive	the giant not said here	his sword			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

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