Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavi…

Mate, what's a gossoon anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: gossoon

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gossoon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 gossoon	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossoon	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gossoon	det
6	gossoon	gossoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 gossoon	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and a gossoon	a gossoon				anyway property	tree rules

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

A young boy who helps a farmer with the sheep and cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 helps	nsubj
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boy	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helps	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sheep	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sheep	det
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 farmer	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cattle	cc
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sheep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	a young boy		a farmer			with the sheep and cattle	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary with sheep=Theme

Option 2

A kind of old bagpipe played at fairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bagpipe	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bagpipe	amod
5	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kind	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 fairs	case
8	fairs	fair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle		a kind of old bagpipe not said here		fairs			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lad or a young boy, like a little lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 boy	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lad	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lad	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 lad	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lad	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lad	amod
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lad	conj

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

Option 4

A sort of wild Irish pipe that is played at weddings in the glen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 pipe	case
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pipe	amod
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pipe	amod
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 played	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 played	aux:pass
9	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pipe	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 weddings	case
11	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 played	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 glen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 glen	det
14	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · passive		wild Irish pipe		weddings		in the glen	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sort			wild Irish pipe					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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