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

How did the boat act when Conall hopped out, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Conall · What happens: do, act, hop out · To what, where: boat

This is test 9 · ★ 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 act	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hopped	advmod
7	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hopped	nsubj
8	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 act	ccomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 hopped	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hopped	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 act	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boat		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Eventuality
2	act	present				tree rules
3	hop out	past	Conall		mate vocative	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It sailed off back where it started

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 sailed	compound:prt
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 sailed	advmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 started	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 started	nsubj
7	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail off	past	It						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	it						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

It came back to the shore, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shore	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	It			the shore and mate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It sank into the sea, bruv, and never came up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sea	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	conj
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	It			the sea and bruv			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not come up	past					again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It drifted off to the rocks, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drifted	nsubj
2	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 drifted	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rocks	det
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drifted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rocks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift off	past	It					to the rocks and bro	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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