Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

Did the water want a deer to swim it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water, deer · What happens: want, swim · To what, where: deer

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deer	det
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swim	mark
8	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swim	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

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

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

Yeah, mad enough, a whole herd of deer swimming in a line across it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 mad	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 herd	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 herd	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 herd	amod
8	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mad	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 deer	case
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 herd	nmod
11	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 deer	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 line	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 line	det
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swimming	obl
15	across	across	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund	deer not said here			a line		across line	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, mad enough, a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 mad	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mad	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mad enough, a deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 mad	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 deer	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mad	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nah, a boat for the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 boat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boat	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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