Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

Why were Hudden and Dudden so jealous, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hudden · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 jealous	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jealous	cop
3	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 jealous	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Dudden	cc
5	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hudden	conj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 jealous	advmod
7	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jealous	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 jealous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hudden and Dudden					mate vocative; jealous property	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

Donald owned a field they wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owned	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 field	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	Donald	a field					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot field=Theme
2	want	past	they	a field not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot field=Theme

Option 2

Donald had the little grass patch they both wanted and he was better at farming than them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 patch	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 patch	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patch	compound
6	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
8	both	both	ADV	_	9 wanted	advmod
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 patch	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 better	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 better	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 better	cop
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 farming	case
15	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 better	obl
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Donald	the little grass patch			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient
2	want	past	they	the little grass patch not said here		both property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot patch=Theme
3	is	past	Donald		farming	than them = they; good property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Donald had the little grass patch they wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 patch	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 patch	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patch	compound
6	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 patch	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Donald	the little grass patch					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient
2	want	past	they	the little grass patch not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot patch=Theme

Option 4

Donald had the big bit of land nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 land	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Donald	the big bit of land				nearby property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient

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