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Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

How'd Finnian force his way in, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1033 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1: Finnian forces his way into a pagan lord's house and wins him over» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 Finnian	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 Finnian	aux
3	Finnian	finnian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 force	amod
4	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	compound
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	6 way	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By starving himself outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 starving	mark
2	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 starving	obj
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 starving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	gerund		himself = he				outside property	tree rules

Option 2

By lying on the cold ground outside and starving himself for days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 lying	mark
2	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ground	amod
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lying	obl
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 lying	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 starving	cc
9	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lying	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 starving	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 starving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the cold ground		outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
2	starve	gerund		himself = he			day		tree rules

Option 3

By sitting out the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 sitting	mark
2	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sitting	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sitting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit out	gerund					night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

By refusing food outside the door until the lord gave in, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 refusing	mark
2	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 like	advcl
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refusing	obj
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	nmod
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 gave	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lord	det
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refusing	advcl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 gave	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 refusing	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	gerund		food				outside the door	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	give in	past	the lord						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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