Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

So what did the henwife have ready at home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: henwife · What happens: do, have

This is test 13 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 henwife	det
5	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ready	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	have	present	the henwife					ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Porridge, ready to go, so no one knew, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Porridge	amod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ready	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Porridge	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Porridge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	no one						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

A full hot dinner with meat and bread and wine, all sorted, so nobody knew she'd been out, mate

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dinner	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dinner	amod
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dinner	amod
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sorted	nsubj:pass
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dinner	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bread	cc
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meat	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wine	cc
10	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sorted	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sorted	nsubj:pass
13	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 knew	advmod
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sorted	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 been	nsubj
19	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 been	aux
20	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 knew	ccomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 been	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mate	punct
23	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sorted	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sort	participle · passive		a full hot dinner with meat and bread and wine	mate vocative	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	know	past	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be out	past · perfect	she			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dinner, all sorted, so no one knew, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorted	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sorted	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sorted	nsubj:pass
4	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 knew	advmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorted	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorted	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	participle · passive		Dinner				mate vocative	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	know	past	no one						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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