Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

Sound, what did the lord do when a servant wanted to chuck a spear?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sound, servant · What happens: do, want, chuck · To what, where: lord, spear

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sound	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lord	det
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 wanted	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 chuck	mark
13	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spear	det
15	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chuck	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Sound	the lord	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Eventuality
2	do	present	Sound		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	a servant		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	chuck not said to happen	to-infinitive	a servant not said here	a spear	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme

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

He grabbed the spear and cuffed him hard across the face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spear	det
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cuffed	cc
6	cuffed	cuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cuffed	obj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cuffed	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 face	det
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	He	the spear					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
2	cuff	past	He not said here	him = he		the face		hard property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

He sent him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past	He	him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He cuffed him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cuffed	nsubj
2	cuffed	cuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cuffed	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 cuffed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuff	past	He	him = he				hard property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He cuffed him one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cuffed	nsubj
2	cuffed	cuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cuffed	obj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cuffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuff	past	He	him = he					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient one=Result

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