Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning fl…

Did the devil give up or nah, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: devil · What happens: give up

This is test 9 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 devil	det
3	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 give	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · do-support	the devil					mate vocative	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, he shouted a lot, cursed Tom's name, and then finally let him go back up to the world

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cursed	punct
8	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lot	acl
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 name	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Tom	case
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cursed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 let	advmod
15	finally	finally	ADV	_	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shouted	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	up	up	ADP	_	23 world	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	he	a lot			tree rules
2	curse	participle	a lot not said here	Tom's name			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	let	infinitive		Tom	then	finally property	tree rules
4	go back	infinitive	Tom not said here			up the world	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	name		Tom				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he shouted and let Tom leg it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shouted	conj
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 leg	compound
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	Tom leg					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent leg=Recipient it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he yelled and waved him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 yelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yelled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yelled	nsubj
4	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 waved	cc
6	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yelled	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waved	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 waved	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wave off	past	he not said here	him = he					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he grabbed Tom by the collar and dragged him back in through the gate, shouting all the way

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 collar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 collar	det
8	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dragged	cc
10	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dragged	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 dragged	advmod
13	in	in	ADV	_	10 dragged	advmod
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dragged	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shouting	punct
18	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grabbed	advcl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 way	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shouting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grab	past	he	Tom		by the collar	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme
2	drag back	past	he not said here	Tom	the gate		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	shout speech: express	gerund	he not said here	all way			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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