Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

Ah go way, what did the old man stake against the wife?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, old man · What happens: go, stake · To what, where: way

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 go	discourse
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stake	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 stake	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stake	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stake	nsubj
10	stake	stake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 way	acl:relcl
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stake	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	way					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	stake	past · do-support	the old man	way				against the wife	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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

every single thing he had, the wife included

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 thing	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	conj
9	included	include	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wife	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	every single thing and the wife not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	include	participle		the wife not said here					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

the whole lot, wife and all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lot	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lot	amod
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lot	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wife	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the whole lot, wife, cows, and all his land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lot	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lot	amod
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lot	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cows	punct
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lot	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 land	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 land	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 land	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 land	nmod:poss
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lot	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

his house and his hounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hounds	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hounds	nmod:poss
5	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 house	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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