Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

Was the axe fussy before it would cut the rod?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: axe · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: axe, rod

This is test 6 · ★ 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	3 axe	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 axe	det
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fussy	csubj
4	fussy	fussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 cut	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fussy	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rod	det
10	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fussy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the axe					tree rules
2	cut	would	axe	the rod					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rod=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

Yeah, it wanted a flag to edge it, and the flag wanted a fresh coat of paint

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flag	det
6	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 edge	mark
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flag	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 edge	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flag	det
13	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 coat	det
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 coat	amod
17	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 paint	case
19	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	it	a flag and edge	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flag=Theme
2	edge		edge		tree rules
3	want	past	the flag	a fresh coat of paint	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot coat=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it wanted a flag to edge it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flag	det
6	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 edge	mark
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flag	acl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it	a flag					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent flag=Theme it=Attribute

Option 3

Yeah, it wanted a deer to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deer	det
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swim	mark
8	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it	a deer					tree rules
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	a deer not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it was dead fussy, wanted a flag to edge it and a new handle as well

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fussy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fussy	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fussy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fussy	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fussy	amod
6	fussy	fussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fussy	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flag	det
10	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 edge	mark
12	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flag	acl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 handle	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 handle	det
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 handle	amod
17	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fussy	conj
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	6 fussy	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					fussy property	tree rules
2	want	past		a flag					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent flag=Theme it=Attribute

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