Test 5 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

Did the henwife go mad about the shoe?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: henwife · What happens: go

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 henwife	det
3	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 shoe	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoe	det
8	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the henwife					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

no, she just laughed at the thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 thing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	she			the thing			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

no, she said it might be the best thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thing	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	might	it	the best thing					tree rules

Option 3

yes, she cried and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run off	past	she not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yes, she went mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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