Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning fl…

Did the flail burn Tom's hands or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: flail burn

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2022 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning flail from hell and the Danes run off» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 burn	det
3	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	compound
4	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hands	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Tom	case
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 what	nsubj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the flail burn					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Eventuality

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

Yeah, it burned his hands badly, but he kept hold of it anyway and laughed

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burned	obj
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 burned	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	conj
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 kept	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hold	obl
15	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	12 hold	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laughed	cc
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn	past	it	his hands	badly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	keep	past	he			tree rules
3	hold	infinitive	he not said here		of it; anyway property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	past				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it hovered near his palms, glowing brightly, but never touched him once

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hovered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hovered	nsubj
4	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 palms	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 palms	nmod:poss
7	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hovered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glowing	punct
9	glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hovered	advcl
10	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	9 glowing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 touched	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 touched	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 touched	advmod
14	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hovered	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touched	obj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 touched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hover	past	it		his palms		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palm=Location
2	glow	gerund				brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not touch	past		him = he		once property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it didn't even touch him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 touch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touch	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 touch	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past · do-support	it	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 4

Nah, it singed his thumb a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 singed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 singed	nsubj
4	singed	singe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 thumb	nmod:poss
6	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singed	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	singe	past	it	his thumb				a bit obl:unmarked	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient

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