Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

Like, were the lord's crew keeping watch on the saint?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crew · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: crew, watch, saint

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 crew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crew	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lord	det
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crew	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lord	case
7	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 crew	acl
9	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 saint	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saint	det
12	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 crew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the lord's crew					tree rules
2	keep	gerund	the lord's crew not said here	watch		the saint			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on saint=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

They crept about the halls and peeped through every crack in the wall

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 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 halls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 halls	det
5	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crept	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 peeped	cc
7	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 halls	conj
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 crack	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 crack	det
10	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	They			every crack		about the halls; in the wall	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about hall=Trajectory
2	peep	participle	They not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They peeped through the spy-holes

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 peeped	nsubj
2	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	7 holes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 holes	det
5	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holes	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 spy	punct
7	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 peeped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep	past	They					through the spy holes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme

Option 3

They guarded the great door

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 guarded	nsubj
2	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	They	the great door					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary

Option 4

They watched him from the wall

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 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	They	him = he		the wall			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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