Test 14 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Did the dog get wrecked by the crone, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crone · What happens: wreck · To what, where: dog

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 2007 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a poor fisherman promises his first son to the sea-maiden, and the son sets out» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrecked	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrecked	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 wrecked	aux:pass
5	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 crone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crone	det
8	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrecked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wrecked	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wrecked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · passive · do-support	the crone	the dog					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

It ran off

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	It						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Struck down by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Struck	compound:prt
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 magic	case
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike down	participle						by magic	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by magic=Location

Option 3

Eaten by the crone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle						by the crone	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Burned by a fire

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	by	by	ADP	_	4 fire	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burned	obl

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

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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