Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…

Oi, be real, Donald's the clever one here, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Donald · What happens: be · To what, where: clever one

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 real	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
6	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	conj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 one	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	4 real	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Donald	the clever one		here			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

Yeah, he's clever, but the brothers tricked him into the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tricked	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tricked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brothers	det
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tricked	nsubj
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tricked	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 lake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lake	det
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					clever property	tree rules
2	trick	past	the brothers	him = he				into the lake result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into lake=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he tricks them every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricks	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricks	nsubj
4	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricks	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricks	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present	he	them = they			time		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Nah, they trick him every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 trick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trick	nsubj
4	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trick	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present	they	him = he			time		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he's the clever one, cos he tricks them every single time they meet, mate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cos	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
9	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tricks	nsubj
11	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cos	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tricks	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tricks	obl:unmarked
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 meet	nsubj
17	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 time	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mate	punct
19	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	he	the clever one		tree rules
2	co	present	the clever one			tree rules
3	trick	present	he	them = they	time	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	meet	present	they	every single time and mate not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Co-Agent

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