Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

Hudden lent Donald the scales, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hudden · What happens: lend, not do · To what, where: scales, Donald

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lent	nsubj
2	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lent	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scales	det
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lent	parataxis
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 did	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	past	Hudden	the scales	Donald				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent donald=Recipient scale=Theme
2	not do	past	Hudden						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but he put butter at the bottom to trick him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 trick	mark
11	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 put	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	he	butter		the bottom			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent butter=Theme at bottom=Destination
2	trick	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, Donald lent them, and he did it to trick Hudden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lent	nsubj
4	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trick	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trick	aux
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 trick	mark
12	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	past	Donald	them = they					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	trick	past · do-support		Hudden					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hudden=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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