Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

Were potatoes a thing back then, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potatoes · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2010 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks the giant with iron cakes» 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Were	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thing	det
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Were	nsubj
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 Were	advmod
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 what	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Were	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	potatoes						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, potatoes not invented yet, so there were none at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 potatoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 none	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 invented	advmod
5	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 potatoes	acl
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 invented	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 were	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 none	cop
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 none	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not invent	participle		potatoes not said here			yet		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	potatoes	none		all			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, potatoes not invented yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 potatoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 invented	advmod
5	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 potatoes	acl
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 invented	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not invent	participle		potatoes not said here			yet		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, they grew wild here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	they			here		wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, potatoes were not invented yet in that time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 potatoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 invented	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 invented	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 invented	advmod
6	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 invented	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not invent	past · passive		potatoes			yet; time		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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