Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tr…
how did Deirdre's looks make Gelban's job so tricky?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: looks, Gelban · What happens: be, make, job · To what, where: job
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1996 «Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tricks fail and the three brothers die» 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 make | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 how | cop |
| 3 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Deirdre | case |
| 5 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tricky | advcl |
| 7 | Gelban | Gelban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 job | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Gelban | case |
| 9 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 tricky | advmod |
| 11 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 tricky | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | how property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Deirdre's looks | Gelban's job | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product | ||||
| 3 | job | Gelban | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
She turned away whenever anyone looked at her
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 looked | advmod |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | She | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | anyone | at her = she; whenever property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Her beauty made every man stare so hard that the king's emissary could not keep his eyes on the door
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 hard | advmod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 stare | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emissary | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | emissary | emissary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 keep | advmod |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stare | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Her beauty | every man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stare | infinitive | every man not said here | hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not keep | could | the king's emissary | emissary's eyes | the door | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on door=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She blushed a crimson red whenever anyone looked at her
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 blushed | nsubj |
| 2 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crimson | det |
| 4 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 red | amod |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blushed | xcomp |
| 6 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 looked | advmod |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blushed | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past | She | red property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | anyone | at her = she; whenever property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
Option 4
She hid her face whenever a man looked on her
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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 looked | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 looked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | She | her face | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | a man | whenever property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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