Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

Why was the hare not gettin' out of the field, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: not be · To what, where: gettin

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 gettin	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gettin	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gettin	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 gettin	advmod
6	gettin	gettin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 gettin	punct
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 field	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 field	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	6 gettin	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gettin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	the hare	gettin					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

it was fenced in tight

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	3 fenced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fenced	aux:pass
3	fenced	fence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 tight	case
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fenced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fence	past · passive		it		tight			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 2

a high wall went round it and the dogs were everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wall	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wall	amod
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 everywhere	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 everywhere	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 everywhere	cop
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a high wall			it			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round it=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the dogs					everywhere property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a high wall went round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wall	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wall	amod
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a high wall			it			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round it=Initial_Location

Option 4

the field had a high gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 field	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gate	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gate	amod
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the field	a high gate					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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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