Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tell…

Right, what did Conall do with his finger, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Conall · What happens: do

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 finger	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 finger	nmod:poss
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finger	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Conall					with Conall's finger and bro	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

Buried it under a rock, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buried	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 rock	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rock	det
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buried	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past		it		a rock and bruv			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under rock=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Chopped it off and tossed it into the bog, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chopped	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Chopped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tossed	cc
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Chopped	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 bog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bog	det
9	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tossed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bog	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past		it					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	toss	past		it		the bog and bruv			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Patient into bog=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chopped it off and chucked it in the loch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chopped	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Chopped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 chucked	cc
5	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Chopped	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chucked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 loch	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 loch	det
9	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past		it					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	chuck	past		it		the loch			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in loch=Destination

Option 4

Chopped it off with his knife and kept it in a pouch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chopped	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Chopped	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 knife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knife	nmod:poss
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chopped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Chopped	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pouch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pouch	det
12	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past		it				with his knife	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with knife=Instrument
2	keep	past		knife		a pouch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pouch=Location

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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