Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

Whit time did the king get up, like, mental early?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit time, king · What happens: do, get up

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1994 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden girl is found by a lost hunter, and the king sets out to take her» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	compound
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 get	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mental	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	11 mental	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	conj
12	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 mental	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit time						tree rules
2	get up	present	the king						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

before the birds started singin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 started	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the birds	singin					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singin=Eventuality

Option 2

when the cock had crowed twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 crowed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cock	det
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crowed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crowed	aux
5	crowed	crow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 crowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past · perfect · passive		the cock				twice property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

before the first light, afore the cock crew and the cattle wakened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	before	before	ADP	_	4 light	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crew	punct
6	afore	afore	ADP	_	9 crew	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crew	det
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crew	compound
9	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cattle	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cattle	det
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	conj
13	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waken	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

in the middle o the nicht when the dogs stopped barkin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
4	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 nicht	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nicht	det
6	nicht	nicht	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stopped	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stopped	nsubj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	barkin	barkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the dogs	barkin		the middle of the nicht			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector barkin=Eventuality

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