Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

Was the cobbler a grand sort of fella who helped him out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fella · What happens: be, help out, sort · To what, where: cobbler, fella

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cobbler	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cobbler	det
3	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod:poss
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sort	amod
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fella	case
8	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 helped	nsubj
10	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fella	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 helped	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 helped	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the cobbler		tree rules
2	help out	past	fella		cobbler	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	sort			fella		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 hit him with a hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hammer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hammer	det
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	him = he				with a hammer	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hammer=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was a grand man and gave him a warm bed and a meal

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 man	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bed	det
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bed	amod
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 meal	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 meal	det
16	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a grand man					tree rules
2	give	past	a grand man	a warm bed and a meal	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bed=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he went at him with awls and pinchers and a hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 awls	case
8	awls	awl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pinchers	cc
10	pinchers	pincher	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 awls	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hammer	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hammer	det
13	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 awls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					at him = he; with awls and pinchers and a hammer	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with awl=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he went at him with awls and pinchers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 awls	case
8	awls	awl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pinchers	cc
10	pinchers	pincher	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 awls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					at him = he; with awls and pinchers	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with awl=Beneficiary

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