Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

honestly, was the cowboy kind of a legend or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cowboy kind

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2004 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the giant laugh and stops a wedding» 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 honestly	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	compound
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 legend	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 legend	det
9	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 legend	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cowboy kind				of a legend; honestly 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

he won the whole contest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 contest	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 contest	amod
5	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	he	the whole contest					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he was the bravest man ever to walk into the hall and make the giant weep

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 man	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 man	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 walk	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 weep	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weep	amod
16	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the bravest man	ever		tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive				into the hall result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hall=Result
3	make	infinitive		the giant weep			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset weep=Product

Option 3

he saved the princess, the sons and the whole household from the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sons	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sons	det
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 princess	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 household	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 household	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 household	amod
11	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 princess	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 giant	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	he	the princess and the sons and the whole household				from the giant	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from giant=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he saved the day, big time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	he				day; time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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