Test 8 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Did the giant reckon the cattle were his?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: cattle, his

This is test 8 · ★ 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 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cattle	det
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	obj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 his	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cattle	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the giant	the cattle					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cattle=Attribute
2	is a	past		his = he					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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, on his own land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 land	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 land	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 land	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

No, they were borrowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 borrowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 borrowed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 borrowed	aux:pass
5	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	past · passive		they					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 stolen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod

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

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