Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

Was it proper sus that the miller wanted a full sieve of water?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, miller · What happens: be, want · To what, where: proper sus, full sieve

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 sus	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sus	nsubj
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sus	amod
4	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sus	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sieve	det
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sieve	amod
11	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sieve	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	proper sus					tree rules
2	want	past	the miller	a full sieve of water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sieve=Theme

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, it always ran out again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	past	it				again	always property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, it poured right out again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 poured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 poured	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poured	nsubj
4	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	4 poured	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 poured	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	it				again	out property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it always ran out again, so the miller just kept on refilling it all day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 miller	det
11	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	15 refilling	mark
15	refilling	refill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kept	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 refilling	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 refilling	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run out	past	it		again	always property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	the miller				tree rules
3	refill	gerund	the miller not said here	miller	day		tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it never ran out at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run out	past	it			all			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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