Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…

Bruv, so the brothers thought they'd drowned Donald, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: think, drown · To what, where: brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thought	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drowned	nsubj:pass
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drowned	aux
9	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thought	ccomp
10	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 drowned	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Donald	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 drowned	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the brothers					Bruv vocative	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	drown	past · perfect · passive		brothers = brother					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient donald=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, they burnt him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past	they	him = he					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they left him at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 inn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inn	det
8	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	him = he		the inn			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at inn=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they chucked the sack in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	they	the sack		the lake			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme in lake=Destination

Option 4

Nah, they kept him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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