Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…

Oi, so the lake lady dipped off after the third whack, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: dip off, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1993 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maiden leaves after three blows» 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	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dipped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dipped	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 dipped	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	compound
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dipped	nsubj
7	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 dipped	compound:prt
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 whack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whack	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 whack	amod
12	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dipped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dipped	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip off	past	Oi				after the third whack		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	Oi 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	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	stay	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she stuck around with the cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cattle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cattle	det
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick around	past	she					with the cattle; around property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cattle=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she legged it with the cows, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 legged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legged	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	nsubj
4	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cows	det
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 legged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cows	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	she	it				with the cows and mate	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, she bolted off with the herd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bolted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bolted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolted	nsubj
4	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 bolted	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 herd	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herd	det
8	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bolted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt off	past	she					with the herd	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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