Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become ste…

Did the giant drown or just get dead tired?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: drown, get

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2019 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become steps, a finger is lost, and the giant drowns» 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 drown	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drown	nsubj
4	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drown	conj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tired	amod
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 drown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · do-support	the giant						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	infinitive	the giant not said here					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He went home to bed and died there in the night, after a long day of chasing

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 died	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 chasing	case
18	chasing	chasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He			bed	day	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	die	past	He not said here			there	night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He drowned in the loch, sorted

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 drowned	nsubj
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 loch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 loch	det
5	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drowned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct
7	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 loch	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	He			the loch			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sort	participle		the loch not said here					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He got dead tired, 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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tired	amod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					mate vocative; tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He just fell asleep, innit

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	3 fell	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 fell	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	He					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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