Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavi…

So the king was dead by the end, sick story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king				by the end and sick story	dead 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

Yeah, the goose died first and then the king followed her some time after, sad end

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goose	det
4	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 died	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 followed	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 followed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	nsubj
11	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 followed	obj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	obl:unmarked
15	after	after	ADV	_	11 followed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 end	punct
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 end	amod
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the goose	sad end				first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	follow	past	the king	goose			then; time	after property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, the goose died, then the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goose	det
4	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 king	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 king	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the goose	the king					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Nah, he lived on happy, and the goose flew off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 happy	case
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goose	det
10	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 flew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	he			happy			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on happy=Location
2	fly off	past	the goose						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he went soon after, the goose died first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 went	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	4 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goose	det
9	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					soon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	the goose					first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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