Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, t…

Dead funny, the widow's son was called Jack, weren't he?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: call, not be · To what, where: son, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 he	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 widow	det
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 widow	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 called	aux:pass
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 funny	conj
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Jack	punct
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 he	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 he	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 he	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		the widow's son					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme jack=Result
2	not is a	past		Jack					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

Nah, his name was Gwion, not Jack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 Gwion	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Gwion	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Gwion	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Gwion	cop
6	Gwion	Gwion	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Jack	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 Jack	advmod
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Gwion	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	his name	Gwion and Jack					tree rules
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yeah, he had a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hen	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a hen					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and he had one cake and one hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cake	nummod
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hen	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hen	nummod
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	one cake and one hen					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, his name was Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 Tom	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tom	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Tom	cop
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	his name	Tom					tree rules
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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