Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…
Nah, did they actually get to the cattle at the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: do, get · To what, where: end
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1992 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the wrong man and chase clouds in the lake» 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 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cattle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cattle | det |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | they | at the end | to the cattle result; actually property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cattle=Result |
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, Hudden jumped in and got them
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 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | past | Hudden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Hudden not said here | them = they | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, Dudden jumped in and that's the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 jumped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 jumped | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 end | cc |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 end | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 end | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | past | Dudden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the end | tree rules |
Option 3
No, Donald took the cattle home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cattle | det |
| 6 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Donald | the cattle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cattle=Theme home=Destination |
Option 4
Yeah, they got them all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | them = they | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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