Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

Did Tuan want to chat about his past, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tuan · What happens: want, chat

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
2	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 chat	mark
5	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 past	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 past	nmod:poss
8	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	3 want	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Tuan						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	chat speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tuan not said here					about Tuan's past	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about past=Topic

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

Not at all, he said, but he told a long tale about his ancestors anyway

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 said	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tale	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tale	amod
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 ancestors	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ancestors	nmod:poss
16	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tale	nmod
17	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	he			all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	he	a long tale				about his ancestors; anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient about ancestor=Topic

Option 2

No, he said let it be, and he went quietly back to his own bed

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 bed	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bed	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bed	amod
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		it		tree rules
3	be	infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go back	past	he		to his own bed result; quietly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result

Option 3

No, he said leave it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	infinitive		it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, he said let it be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		it	tree rules
3	be	infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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