Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

So the hound got the butter in its claw, yeah, and hunted the deer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hound · What happens: get, hunt · To what, where: butter, claw, deer

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1997 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar eats every raspberry, so Munachar sets out to make a rope and hang him» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hound	det
3	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 butter	det
6	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 claw	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 claw	nmod:poss
9	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 butter	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hunted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hunted	cc
14	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 deer	det
16	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hunted	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the hound	the butter		hound's claw			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer butter=Stimulus
2	hunt	past	the hound not said here	the deer					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the deer swam the water first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deer	det
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	nsubj
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the deer	the water				first property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, deadly, the hound followed the deer right across the moor and into the water

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 deadly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 deadly	punct
3	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hound	det
6	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	nsubj
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deadly	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deer	det
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	13 moor	advmod
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 moor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moor	det
13	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 water	cc
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the hound	the deer		the moor and the water			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme across moor=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, deadly, the hound hunted the deer and the deer swam the water and the cat chased them both

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 deadly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 deadly	punct
3	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hunted	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hound	det
6	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunted	nsubj
7	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deadly	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deer	det
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunted	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swam	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 deer	det
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 swam	nsubj
13	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunted	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swam	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cat	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 water	conj
19	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deadly	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chased	obj
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 deadly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hunt	past	the hound	the deer	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
2	swim	past	the deer	the water and the cat	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory
3	chase	past		water	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, deadly, then the deer swam the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 deadly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 deadly	punct
3	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swam	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 swam	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swam	nsubj
8	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deadly	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swam	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the deer	the water			then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory

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