Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tell…

How did the giant lose him, honestly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: lose · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 giant	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giant	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lose	nsubj
5	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honestly	punct
8	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 lose	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	the giant	him = he				honestly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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

He chased the bell back to the cave

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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 chased	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase back	past	He	the bell		the cave			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bell=Theme to cave=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The ring kept talking, so he followed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 followed	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 followed	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 followed	nsubj
8	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	the ring		tree rules
2	talk	gerund	the ring not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	follow	past	he	ring	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He heard the bell and went off, 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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	He	the bell				mate vocative	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus
2	go off	past	He not said here						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The giant could hear the ring so he went to the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	the giant	the ring					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
2	go	past	giant			the lake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location

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