Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

Was Munachar actually gutted about the raspberries?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Munachar · What happens: be, gut · To what, where: Munachar

This is test 4 · ★ 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	2 Munachar	cop
2	Munachar	Munachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 gutted	advmod
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 raspberries	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 raspberries	det
7	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gutted	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Munachar					tree rules
2	gut	past	Munachar					about the raspberries; actually property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Manachar scoffed every one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scoffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	nsubj
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	Manachar	every one					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, Munachar only lost a few, Manachar scoffed them, though he said sorry after

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Munachar	Munachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lost	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 lost	advmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 few	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lost	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scoffed	punct
9	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 scoffed	nsubj
10	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scoffed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scoffed	conj
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	xcomp
17	after	after	ADP	_	15 said	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Munachar	a few		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Eventuality
2	scoff	past	Manachar	them = they		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	say after speech: apologize	past	Manachar		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, Manachar scoffed every single one of them, then blamed the hound for it all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scoffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	nsubj
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blamed	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 blamed	advmod
12	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scoffed	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hound	det
14	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blamed	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blamed	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	Manachar	every single one of them					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	blame	past		the hound			then	for hound	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hound=Theme for it=Attribute

Option 4

Yeah, Manachar ate them all up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Manachar	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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