Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

Was the wife actually sittin' beside the beggar, sound?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wife

This is test 4 · ★ 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 wife	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sittin	compound
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 sittin	advmod
5	sittin	sittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 sittin	punct
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 beggar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beggar	det
9	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sittin	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sound	punct
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beggar	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sittin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wife					tree rules

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

yes, she moved across the hall and sat with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 moved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moved	nsubj
4	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	she			the hall			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across hall=Trajectory
2	sit	past	she not said here					with him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she sat beside the beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 beggar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beggar	det
5	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she			the beggar			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside beggar=Location

Option 3

she got up and walked over to sit down beside him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walked	cc
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sit	mark
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 walked	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sit	compound:prt
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get up	past	she		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	walk over	past	she not said here	over property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	to-infinitive	she not said here	beside him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she went and sat near him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	she not said here					near him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location

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