Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

the stork in the pot, was that dinner or something?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork · What happens: be · To what, where: dinner

This is test 13 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dinner	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stork	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stork	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dinner	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dinner	mark
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 something	cc
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 dinner	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 dinner	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the stork in the pot	dinner					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

it was a decoy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 decoy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decoy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 decoy	det
4	decoy	decoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a decoy					tree rules

Option 2

the stork was roasted on the spit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roasted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roasted	aux:pass
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 spit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spit	det
7	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past · passive		the stork				on the spit	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient on spit=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the stork was boiled for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boiled	aux:pass
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 supper	case
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past · passive		the stork				for supper	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for supper=Beneficiary

Option 4

the goose was hung up to dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goose	det
2	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	aux:pass
4	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 hung	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dry	mark
7	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hung	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	past · passive		the goose					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	dry	to-infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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