Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

what did the cowboy do to the wee hare, dead?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cowboy · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cowboy	det
4	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 hare	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hare	det
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hare	amod
9	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hare	amod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the cowboy					to the wee hare	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

ate it raw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 ate	obj
3	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ate	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		it				raw property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

smashed its brains on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brains	nmod:poss
3	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 smashed	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past		its brains		the wall			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent brain=Theme on wall=Destination

Option 3

let it go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

pinned it to the wooden table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pinned	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 pinned	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 table	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 table	amod
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pinned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	past		it				to the wooden table	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to table=Co-Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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