Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

Was the mare a normal horse, like, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: mare

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mare	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mare	det
3	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mare	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	3 mare	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mare				a normal horse nmod:unmarked	tree rules

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

Yeah, a black pony with a leather saddle, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pony	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pony	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pony	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pony	amod
5	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 saddle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 saddle	det
8	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saddle	compound
9	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pony	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pony	conj

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

Option 2

Nah, a grey donkey with a wooden saddle, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 donkey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 donkey	det
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 donkey	amod
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 saddle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 saddle	det
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saddle	amod
9	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 donkey	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 donkey	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, mate, a magical milk-white mare that could fly over the lake and a golden saddle made by the henwife's own hands

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mare	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mare	det
6	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mare	amod
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 white	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 milk	punct
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mare	amod
10	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fly	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	aux
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 mare	acl:relcl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 lake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lake	det
16	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fly	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saddle	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 saddle	det
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 saddle	amod
20	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lake	conj
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 saddle	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	27 hands	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 henwife	det
24	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hands	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 henwife	case
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hands	amod
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	could	a magical white mare			the lake and a golden saddle			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lake=Location
2	make	participle		a golden saddle not said here				by the henwife's own hands	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, a milk-white mare with a golden saddle, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 mare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mare	det
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 milk	punct
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mare	amod
7	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 saddle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 saddle	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saddle	amod
11	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mare	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mare	conj

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

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