Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, t…
Sus, did Goreu really chop his head off?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: chop off · To what, where: head
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2001 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, the comb is won, and Kilhuch wins Olwen» 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 | Sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chop | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sus | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chop | aux |
| 4 | Goreu | Goreu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chop | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 chop | advmod |
| 6 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chop | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 chop | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 chop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop off | past · do-support | Sus | Goreu's head | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, and he stuck it on a stake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stuck | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stake | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stake | det |
| 9 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | he | it | a stake | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on stake=Destination |
Option 2
Yeah, and he buried it deep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 buried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 buried | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 buried | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buried | nsubj |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buried | obj |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 5 buried | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | he | it | deep property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, and he stuck it on a stake on top of the citadel for everyone to see
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stuck | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stake | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stake | det |
| 9 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stake | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 citadel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 citadel | det |
| 14 | citadel | citadel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 everyone | case |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 stuck | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 everyone | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | he | it | a stake on top of the citadel | for everyone | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on stake=Destination | ||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, he only cut off the beard and gave the head back to the giant alive
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 cut | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 cut | advmod |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beard | det |
| 8 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 gave | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 alive | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 alive | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 alive | amod |
| 17 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | he | the beard | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector beard=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give back | past | he not said here | the head | the giant alive | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Theme to alive=Recipient |
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