Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

Who came flying out of the cupboard?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: come, fly out · To what, where: cupboard

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 came	xcomp
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 cupboard	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cupboard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cupboard	det
7	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flying	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past							tree rules
2	fly out	gerund		the cupboard					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=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

The lad who'd drowned in the river, Patrick Rooney, the cheek of him, lads, proper wild

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 drowned	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drowned	aux
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lad	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drowned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Patrick	punct
10	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 river	appos
11	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Patrick	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cheek	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cheek	det
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Patrick	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cheek	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lads	punct
18	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lad	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lad	punct
20	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wild	amod
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lad	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · perfect	the lad proper wild and lads			the river			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Patrick Rooney, the lad who everyone said had drowned in the river last winter, wild

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Patrick	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Patrick	appos
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 said	nsubj
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lad	acl:relcl
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drowned	aux
10	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drowned	obl
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 winter	amod
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 river	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wild	punct
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 river	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the lad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	drown	past · perfect · passive		Patrick		the river and last winter			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Patrick Rooney, the lad who drowned, wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Patrick	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Patrick	appos
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 drowned	nsubj
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lad	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wild	punct
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Patrick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	the lad						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Some ghost from the old mill, mate, wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wild	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 mill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mill	amod
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ghost	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mill	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ghost	punct
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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