Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…

Wait, why did Hudden say it was heavier, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Hudden, it · What happens: wait, say, be, innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heavier	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heavier	cop
9	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Hudden		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it	heavy property	tree rules
4	innit	infinitive	you not said 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

Cos Donald was still inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 inside	nsubj
2	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 inside	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 inside	advmod
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cos				still	inside property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the sack was full of hides from the fair, all soaking wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 sack	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sack	det
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 hides	case
7	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 fair	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fair	det
10	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hides	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 soaking	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 soaking	nsubj
13	soaking	soak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 full	advcl
14	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soaking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cos the sack; of hides from the fair; full property	tree rules
2	soak	gerund	all					wet property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Cos the farmer was inside the sack, and he'd got heavier from all the cows he was carrying

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 farmer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sack	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sack	cop
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 sack	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 got	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
11	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	aux
12	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sack	conj
13	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 got	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 cows	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 cows	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cows	det
17	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carrying	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carrying	aux
20	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 cows	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			the sack	cos the farmer	tree rules
2	get	past · perfect	farmer			from all cows; heavy property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from cow=Destination
3	carry	past · progressive	farmer	all cows not said here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the farmer was inside the sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 farmer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sack	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sack	cop
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 sack	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the sack		cos the farmer	tree rules

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