Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

Did the henwife give Trembling a proper outfit, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: henwife · What happens: give, tremble · To what, where: proper outfit

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 henwife	det
3	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 give	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 outfit	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 outfit	amod
8	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Trembling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 give	iobj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the henwife						tree rules
2	tremble	gerund	the henwife not said here	a proper outfit					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location outfit=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

Yeah, a red cloak and boots, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cloak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cloak	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloak	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloak	amod
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 boots	cc
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cloak	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sick	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloak	amod

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

Option 2

Yeah, a white robe as bright as snow and green shoes that glowed in the dark, sick, honestly, mate

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 robe	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 robe	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 robe	amod
5	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bright	nsubj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 bright	advmod
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 snow	case
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bright	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shoes	cc
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoes	amod
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snow	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 glowed	nsubj
14	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shoes	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 dark	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dark	det
17	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glowed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sick	punct
19	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoes	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 honestly	punct
21	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	19 sick	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mate	punct
23	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	green shoes			the dark			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 3

Nah, only a brown dress and bare feet, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dress	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 dress	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dress	det
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dress	amod
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feet	cc
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feet	amod
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dress	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dress	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a white robe and green shoes, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 robe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 robe	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 robe	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 robe	amod
5	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shoes	cc
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 robe	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sick	punct
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 robe	parataxis

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

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