Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…
Was Manachar, like, totally fine in the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Manachar · What happens: be · To what, where: end
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fine | cop |
| 2 | Manachar | Manachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
| 4 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 fine | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 6 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 7 fine | advmod |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fine | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Manachar | in the end | fine, totally property | tree rules |
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, he was totally fine, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | cop |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 fine | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fine | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | mate vocative; fine, totally property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he had burst, the wee greedy lad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 burst | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burst | aux |
| 5 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 burst | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lad | det |
| 8 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lad | amod |
| 9 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lad | amod |
| 10 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burst | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past · perfect | he | the wee greedy lad | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he was sick, the wee greedy lad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sick | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sick | cop |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lad | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lad | det |
| 8 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lad | amod |
| 9 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lad | amod |
| 10 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sick | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | sick property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, he was grand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 grand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grand | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grand | cop |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | grand property | tree rules |
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