Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Bruv, whit was the black dog daein?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv whit · What happens: be · To what, where: black dog daein

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 whit	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daein	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 daein	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daein	det
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 daein	amod
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daein	compound
8	daein	daein	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 daein	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv whit	the black dog daein					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 · ✓ the right answer

helping fight the beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 helping	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beast	det
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	gerund							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fight	infinitive		the beast					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent

Option 2

biting the General

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 General	det
3	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 biting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	gerund		the General					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Patient

Option 3

guarding the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund			the horse				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Beneficiary

Option 4

chasing the rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rabbits	det
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund		the rabbits					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme

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