Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavi…

Yo, so the saint just glued the goose back together, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: saint · What happens: glue · To what, where: goose

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1999 «Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavin mends the goose and the king pays with his land» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 glued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 glued	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 saint	det
5	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glued	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 glued	advmod
7	glued	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goose	det
9	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glued	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 together	advmod
11	together	together	ADV	_	7 glued	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 glued	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	7 glued	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 glued	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	past	the saint	the goose				together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Patient

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

Nah, he sold her to a tinker for coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tinker	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tinker	det
8	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 coins	case
10	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	her = she	a tinker			for coins	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme to tinker=Recipient for coin=Asset

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

Nah, he made her as good as new, flying and all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 new	case
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 good	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flying	punct
11	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 all	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 flying	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	her = she				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
2	fly	gerund	he not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he just glued her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 glued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glued	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 glued	advmod
5	glued	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glued	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	past	he	her = she					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he made her as good as new and then flew off to the next parish with her

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 new	case
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 good	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flew	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 flew	advmod
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 flew	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 parish	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parish	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 parish	amod
17	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 parish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	her = she				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
2	fly off	past	he not said here				then	to the next parish with her result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to parish=Result

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