Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

Wait, the giant only had one eye, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, giant · What happens: wait, have · To what, where: one eye

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 eye	nummod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the giant	one eye					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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, one great huge eye right in the middle of his big ugly face and it glowed in the dark like a lamp

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 eye	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eye	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eye	nummod
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 middle	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 face	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 face	nmod:poss
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 face	amod
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 face	amod
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 glowed	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 glowed	nsubj
18	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eye	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 dark	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dark	det
21	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glowed	obl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 lamp	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lamp	det
24	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	face			the dark		like a lamp	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he had two eyes, one each side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eyes	nummod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eyes	appos
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	two eyes					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he had one massive eye right in the middle of his giant ugly face and he was really scary

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 eye	nummod
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eye	amod
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	11 middle	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 face	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 middle	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scary	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 scary	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 scary	cop
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 scary	advmod
21	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	one massive eye		the middle of his giant ugly face			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	is	past	he					scary property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one eye right in the middle of his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 eye	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eye	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eye	nummod
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 middle	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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