Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal houn…

Wait, the wolf was just knackered, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, knacker · To what, where: wolf

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2015 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal hound by mistake» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knackered	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knackered	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knackered	aux:pass
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 knackered	advmod
7	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knackered	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	knacker	past · passive		the wolf					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

Nah, it was alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 alive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alive	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alive	cop
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					alive property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it was torn to bits and lying in the corner with its guts all over the floor

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 torn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 torn	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 torn	aux:pass
5	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bits	case
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 torn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 floor	cc
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 floor	csubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 guts	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 guts	nmod:poss
15	guts	gut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 corner	nmod
16	all	all	ADV	_	19 floor	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 torn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · passive		it				to bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bit=Result
2	lie	gerund				the corner with corner's guts			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was torn to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 torn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 torn	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 torn	aux:pass
5	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bits	case
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 torn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · passive		it				to bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bit=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was shot dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 shot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shot	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shot	aux:pass
5	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shot	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past · passive		it				dead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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