Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

and the sheepskin, did it come off or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sheepskin · What happens: come off

This is test 8 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheepskin	det
3	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sheepskin	punct
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 come	compound:prt
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 come	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	past · do-support	the sheepskin						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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

no, it came off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADV	_	4 came	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	past	it						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it peeled off in the night

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	2 peeled	nsubj
2	peeled	peel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 peeled	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peeled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peel off	past	it				night		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it grew on him for good

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	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it					on him = he; for good	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location

Option 4

he took it off and burned it in the fire at dawn

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 burned	cc
6	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 burned	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burned	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	he	it					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	burn	past	he not said here	it		the fire	dawn		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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