Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

Did Andrew stop and have a chat, or did he leg it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Andrew · What happens: stop, have, do, leg · To what, where: chat

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
2	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chat	det
7	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leg	nsubj
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leg	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	Andrew		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	have	infinitive	Andrew not said here	a chat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient
3	do	past	Andrew not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	leg		Andrew		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

He stopped and had a chat, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chat	det
6	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	He						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	have	past	He not said here	a chat and mate					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient

Option 2

He stood still and had a natter, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 natter	det
7	natter	natter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	He	bruv			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	He not said here	a natter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent natter=Patient

Option 3

He legged it out of there as fast as his legs could carry him, like a shot

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	nsubj
2	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 there	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 there	case
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 legged	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 carry	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 carry	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 carry	aux
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 legged	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carry	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shot	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 shot	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shot	det
18	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	He	it					tree rules
2	carry	could	his legs	him = he				fast property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He legged it out of there, like a shot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	nsubj
2	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 there	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 there	case
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 legged	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shot	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 shot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shot	det
10	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 legged	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	He	it					tree rules

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