Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

Why was she so gutted on the road?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut · To what, where: she, road

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gutted	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	aux:pass
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gutted	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 gutted	advmod
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gutted	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		she		the road			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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

She saw elves at midday in blue petticoats and got properly scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midday	case
5	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 petticoats	case
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 petticoats	amod
8	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
11	properly	properly	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	She	elves		midday		in blue petticoats	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elf=Stimulus
2	get	past	She not said here					properly, scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She met a bear at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 noon	case
6	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	She	a bear			noon		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She saw elves at midday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midday	case
5	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	She	elves		midday			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elf=Stimulus

Option 4

She saw dwarfs at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dusk	case
5	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	She	dwarfs			dusk		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus

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