Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…
So Munachar went for a rod, yeah, to make a gad?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Munachar · What happens: go, make · To what, where: gad
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Munachar | Munachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 rod | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rod | det |
| 6 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 11 make | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gad | det |
| 13 | gad | gad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Munachar | for a rod | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rod=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Munachar not said here | a gad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product |
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, a gad to hang Manachar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gad | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gad | det |
| 4 | gad | gad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hang | mark |
| 6 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gad | acl |
| 7 | Manachar | Manachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hang | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | to-infinitive | Manachar | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manachar=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, he went looking for a rod and the axe and the water and all that stuff
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 rod | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rod | det |
| 8 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 axe | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 axe | det |
| 11 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rod | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 water | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rod | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 stuff | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 stuff | det |
| 18 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | all stuff | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | he not said here | for a rod and the axe and the water | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for rod=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, a rod to beat the cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 rod | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rod | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rod | det |
| 4 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beat | mark |
| 6 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rod | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | to-infinitive | the cat | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he went for a rod to make a gad, which he then used to hang Manachar
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 rod | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rod | det |
| 7 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gad | det |
| 11 | gad | gad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 used | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 used | nsubj |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 used | advmod |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gad | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hang | mark |
| 18 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 used | xcomp |
| 19 | Manachar | Manachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hang | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | for a rod | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rod=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | he not said here | a gad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product | ||||
| 3 | use | past | he | a gad | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | hang | to-infinitive | he not said here | Manachar | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manachar=Patient |
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