Test 7 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

What did the sisters reckon she was good for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters, she · What happens: do, reckon, be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 good	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckon	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the sisters		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	she	good property	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 · ← Mova's choice

scrubbing the pots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pots	det
3	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 scrubbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	gerund		the pots					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

putting out the ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 putting	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ashes	det
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 putting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	gerund		the ashes					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ash=Goal

Option 3

putting out the ashes and minding the hens at the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 putting	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ashes	det
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 putting	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 minding	cc
6	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 putting	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hens	det
8	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 minding	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 back	det
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 minding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	gerund		the ashes					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ash=Goal
2	mind	gerund		the hens		the back			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme

Option 4

carrying in the turf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 turf	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 turf	det
4	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund				the turf			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in turf=Location

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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