Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

Molly from Dublin: «what's the craic with the mud?» (craic = what's going on) Why did the ladies put mud in his hair?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Molly, craic, ladies · What happens: be, go on, put · To what, where: craic, mud, hair

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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

Sentence 1: Molly from Dublin: «what's the craic with the mud?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Dublin	case
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Molly	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 craic	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 craic	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 craic	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 craic	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 craic	det
9	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Molly	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 mud	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mud	det
12	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 craic	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 craic	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 craic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Molly from Dublin	the craic				with the mud	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.

Sentence 2: (craic = what's going on) Why did the ladies put mud in his hair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 craic	punct
2	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	=	=	SYM	_	6 going	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 going	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 craic	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
9	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 put	advmod
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ladies	det
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	advcl
14	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hair	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 craic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive	craic						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past · do-support	the ladies	mud		Molly's hair			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme in hair=Destination

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They thought he had hurt Tegumai and Taffy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Taffy	cc
8	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tegumai	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hurt	past · perfect	he	Tegumai and Taffy					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tegumai=Patient

Option 2

They wanted to hide him from the Chief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hide	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Chief	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Chief	det
8	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	him = he		the Chief			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient from chief=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They thought he had come from enemies to hurt Tegumai and Taffy, so they covered him in mud

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 enemies	case
7	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hurt	mark
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl
10	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Taffy	cc
12	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Tegumai	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 covered	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covered	nsubj
16	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covered	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 mud	case
19	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	past · perfect	he			enemies		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from enemy=Initial_Location
3	hurt	to-infinitive	he not said here	Tegumai and Taffy				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tegumai=Patient
4	cover	past	Tegumai		Taffy		in mud	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination in mud=Theme

Option 4

They thought he had hurt Tegumai and Taffy with the spear and wanted to punish him for it

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Taffy	cc
8	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tegumai	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 spear	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spear	det
11	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 punish	mark
15	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 punish	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 punish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hurt	past · perfect	he	Tegumai and Taffy	with the spear	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tegumai=Patient
3	want	past	They not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	punish not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	Taffy	for spear	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for it=Theme

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