Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

So why were the sisters keeping Trembling at home?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: be, keep, tremble · To what, where: sisters, home

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	5 sisters	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sisters	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sisters	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sisters	det
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sisters	acl
7	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeping	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Trembling	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sisters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the sisters		tree rules
2	keep	gerund	the sisters not said here			tree rules
3	tremble	gerund	the sisters not said here		home	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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

They were jealous of her looks, mate, real talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 looks	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 looks	nmod:poss
6	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jealous	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 talk	amod
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					of her looks and mate and real talk; jealous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was prettier, so they were scared, bant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prettier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prettier	cop
3	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scared	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prettier	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bant	punct
10	bant	bant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prettier	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	She	pretty property	tree rules
2	is	past	they	scared property	tree rules
3	bant	present	She not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She was prettier, so they hid her, bant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prettier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prettier	cop
3	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hid	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 hid	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hid	nsubj
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prettier	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hid	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bant	punct
10	bant	bant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prettier	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		pretty property	tree rules
2	hide	past	they	her = she		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	bant	present	She not said here			tree rules

Option 4

They were just jealous, mate, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jealous	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 jealous	advmod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sound	punct
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					mate vocative; jealous property	tree rules

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