Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

Yo, so the giant ate the griddle bread and started screaming, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: eat, start, scream · To what, where: griddle bread

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bread	det
8	griddle	griddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bread	compound
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 started	cc
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ate	conj
12	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 started	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	12 screaming	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	past	the giant	the griddle bread	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	start	past	the giant not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	scream speech: express	gerund	the giant not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, bro, no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bro	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bro	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he just ate it, bro, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sound	punct
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bro	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his teeth were wrecked, mate, total gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wrecked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrecked	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teeth	nmod:poss
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrecked	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrecked	aux:pass
6	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gas	punct
10	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gas	amod
11	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · passive		his teeth					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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