Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tr…

did the druid's last trick make the sea go hard?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: last trick, sea, druid · What happens: make, go, trick · To what, where: sea

This is test 6 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 druid	det
3	druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 druid	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	amod
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 go	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	the druid's last trick	the sea		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the sea not said here		hard property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trick		the druid			nom trick «act transitive»: 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

Yeah, turned the whole grey sea into rocks with swords and adders along every edge, cold as anything

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 rocks	case
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 swords	case
11	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rocks	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 adders	cc
13	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 swords	conj
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 edge	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 edge	det
16	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cold	punct
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 edge	amod
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 anything	case
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		the whole grey sea		rocks with swords and adders		along every edge	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent sea=Theme into rock=Source along edge=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, made it all hard with spears and snakes on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 made	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 spears	case
8	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 snakes	cc
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spears	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 top	case
12	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		it		top		with spears and snakes; hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, turned it into rocks with swords and adders on the edges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 swords	case
8	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 adders	cc
10	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swords	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 edges	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edges	det
13	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		it		rocks		with swords and adders; on the edges	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into rock=Source on edge=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it turned into a big mountain with fire round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 mountain	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mountain	amod
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 fire	case
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	nmod
11	round	round	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	it			a big mountain with fire		round fire	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mountain=Source round it=Trajectory

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