Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Whit did the herd pull oot his pocket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, herd · What happens: do, pull · To what, where: oot

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herd	det
4	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	nsubj
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	parataxis
6	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	obj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull	infinitive	the herd	oot					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent oot=Theme pocket=Result

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

a handfu o gold coins and the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handfu	det
2	handfu	handfu	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 coins	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handfu	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ring	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the ring and earrings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 earrings	cc
4	earrings	earring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ring	conj

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

Option 3

the gold ring and a pair o earrings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	compound
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pair	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pair	det
6	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	conj
7	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	8 earrings	case
8	earrings	earring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pair	nmod

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

Option 4

the gold brooch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brooch	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brooch	compound
3	brooch	brooch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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