Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…
Did Hudden run off straight after the scales thing?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hudden · What happens: run off
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 2 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 run | nsubj |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 run | compound:prt |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 thing | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 thing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thing | compound |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past · do-support | Hudden | after the scales thing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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
Yeah, he jumped up, grabbed the gold, and sprinted to Dudden's house as fast as he could go
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 jumped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grabbed | punct |
| 7 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gold | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grabbed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprinted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprinted | cc |
| 12 | sprinted | sprint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Dudden | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprinted | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 fast | advmod |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sprinted | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fast | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | he | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grab | past | he not said here | the gold | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sprint | past | he not said here | Dudden's house | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 4 | go | could | Dudden | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he ran to Dudden's as fast as he could
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Dudden | case |
| 6 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Dudden | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | he | Dudden | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dudden=Result |
Option 3
Yeah, he hurried off to find his brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hurried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 hurried | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurried | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry off | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | he not said here | his brother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he stayed at the inn with Donald all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 inn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inn | det |
| 7 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Donald | case |
| 9 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 inn | nmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | he | the inn with Donald | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location |
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