Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tell…

What was Conall's crew doing when he got stranded, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crew · What happens: be, do, strand · To what, where: crew, Conall

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 crew	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crew	cop
3	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crew	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Conall	case
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 crew	acl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stranded	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stranded	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stranded	aux:pass
10	stranded	strand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 doing	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	10 stranded	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		Conall's crew	tree rules
2	do	gerund	Conall's crew not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strand	past · passive		Conall	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

Sailing home with the rest, but then he fell in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fell	advcl
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Sailing	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 fell	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund	he not said here					with the rest; home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	he			the sea	then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

Option 2

Nothing, he was at home with the cats, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 home	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 home	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 home	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cats	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cats	det
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 home	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nothing			home		with the cats and bro	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing, he was alone with no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alone	cop
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Nothing	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 food	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					with no food; alone property	tree rules

Option 4

Fishing near the shore, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 shore	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shore	det
4	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fishing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shore	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish	gerund				the shore and mate			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent near shore=Location

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