Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

did the cowboy actually tie the giant up good, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, tie · To what, where: cowboy, giant good

This is test 2 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cowboy	det
3	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 tie	advmod
5	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 good	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 good	amod
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 giant	compound:prt
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tie	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 did	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the cowboy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cowboy=Eventuality
2	tie	present		the giant good				actually property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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

with his wrists tied to the rafters and his feet to the stone floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 wrists	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wrists	nmod:poss
3	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obl
4	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 rafters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rafters	det
7	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feet	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rafters	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 floor	compound
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past						with his wrists; to the rafters and his feet; to the stone floor	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with wrist=Co-Patient

Option 2

with his hands bound behind his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 hands	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	bound	bound	ADV	_	3 hands	advmod
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bound	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by the three smalls, toes near his ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 smalls	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smalls	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 smalls	nummod
4	smalls	small	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 toes	punct
6	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smalls	conj
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 ears	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 toes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

bound in sheepskin from head to toe so he could barely breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 sheepskin	case
3	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bound	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 head	case
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bound	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 toe	case
7	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	nmod
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 breathe	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 breathe	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 breathe	aux
11	barely	barely	ADV	_	12 breathe	advmod
12	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bound	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	participle				sheepskin		from head to toe	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	breathe	could	he					barely property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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