Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…

Bro, was that bread like rock or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bread

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bread	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 bread	mark
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 rock	case
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rock	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		bread				like rock; Bro vocative	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 · ✓ the right answer

Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 baked	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Hard	punct
3	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brick	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brick	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 brick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brick	det
7	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv, she said it was rubbish and wouldn't eat it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 baked	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Hard	punct
3	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brick	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 brick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brick	det
7	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 baked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brick	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 baked	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rubbish	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rubbish	cop
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eat	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 eat	advmod
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bake	participle			like a brick and bruv	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	bruv	rubbish		tree rules
4	not eat	would	she not said here	bruv		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, mate, it was rock hard, proper stale, she sang about it and laughed loud

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sang	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rock	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rock	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rock	cop
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	conj
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stale	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stale	amod
11	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hard	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sang	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sang	nsubj
14	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sang	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughed	cc
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sang	conj
19	loud	loud	ADV	_	18 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	rock		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	mate and rock		about rock	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Location
3	laugh	past	mate and rock not said here		loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Rock hard, like a stone, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Rock	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rock	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rock	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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