Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…

Did she ever come back to see them, cuz?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: come back, see · To what, where: them

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cuz	punct
10	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · do-support	she				ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	she not said here	them = they				cuz obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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, when they were kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 kids	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kids	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 kids	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kids	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kids	cop
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	kids					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, loads of times, every year, when they were little and playing, bruv, proper

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 times	case
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 little	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 little	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 little	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 little	cop
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 playing	cc
15	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 little	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 proper	punct
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	loads = load					little property	tree rules
2	play	gerund	loads = load not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Once, when they were grown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 grown	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grown	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grown	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux:pass
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · passive		they				once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Once, when they were grown and had children of their own, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 grown	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grown	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grown	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux:pass
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mate	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	conj
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 own	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 own	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · passive		they				once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	past		children of children's own					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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