Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

so who got the iron pike, the Gruagach or the cowboy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: iron pike

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pike	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pike	amod
6	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Gruagach	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gruagach	det
9	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pike	appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 cowboy	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cowboy	det
12	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Gruagach	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the iron pike					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

the Gruagach got the iron pike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Gruagach	det
2	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pike	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pike	compound
6	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Gruagach	the iron pike					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the cowboy grabbed the iron pike from the Gruagach's hand before the first blow was struck

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cowboy	det
2	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	nsubj
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pike	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pike	amod
6	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 hand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gruagach	det
9	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hand	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Gruagach	case
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 struck	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blow	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 blow	amod
15	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 struck	aux:pass
17	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grabbed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the cowboy	the iron pike		the Gruagach's hand			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pike=Theme from hand=Source
2	strike	past · passive		the first blow					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

the Gruagach chose the iron pike and gave it to his eldest son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Gruagach	det
2	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chose	nsubj
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pike	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pike	amod
6	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 son	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	the Gruagach	the iron pike					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme
2	give	past	the Gruagach not said here	pike	Gruagach's eldest son				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to son=Recipient

Option 4

the Gruagach kept the wooden pike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Gruagach	det
2	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pike	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pike	amod
6	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Gruagach	the wooden pike					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme

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