Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…

Did the shepherd's bread go down well with her, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bread · What happens: go down

This is test 11 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bread	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 shepherd	case
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 go	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	present	the shepherd's bread					with shepherd; down, well property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

She said it was stale, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stale	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stale	cop
5	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stale	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					mate vocative; stale property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She sang it was hard, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hard	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sang	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	She						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	is	past						hard property	tree rules

Option 3

She laughed and ate it, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ate	cc
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	She						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	She not said here	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

She ate it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	She	it				mate vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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