Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

Was the deceiver let off, like, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, let off · To what, where: deceiver

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2005 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deceiver	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 deceiver	det
3	deceiver	deceiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl:unmarked
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 let	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the deceiver					tree rules
2	let off	imperative	you not said here						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

burned to ashes in the great hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 ashes	case
3	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 burned	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle				the great hall		to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

burned to ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 ashes	case
3	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle						to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

drowned in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle				the sea			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

banished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	participle							vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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