Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…

Wait, how many whacks before she bounced for good?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, bounce · To what, where: many whacks

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whacks	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whacks	amod
5	whacks	whack	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 bounced	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bounced	nsubj
8	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bounced	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	many whacks					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bounce	past	she					for good	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Three whacks, then she's gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 whacks	nummod
2	whacks	whack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gone	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 whacks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she				then	gone property	tree rules

Option 2

Two whacks, then she's gone, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 whacks	nummod
2	whacks	whack	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gone	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gone	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 gone	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Two whacks				then	gone property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Three, then gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 gone	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Three hits and she's off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hits	nummod
2	hits	hit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 hits	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 's	nsubj
5	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hits	parataxis
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 's	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be off	present	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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