Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

Proper sad, what did he do then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sad	parataxis
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 do	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	he				then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

He wept loudly and then cursed the pool and all of Ireland

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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 wept	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cursed	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cursed	advmod
6	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pool	det
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cursed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Ireland	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 Ireland	det
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Ireland	case
12	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He					loudly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	curse	past	He not said here	the pool			then		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Theme

Option 2

He howled to the sky and begged the gods for death

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 howled	nsubj
2	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 howled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begged	cc
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 howled	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gods	det
9	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 begged	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	past	He		the sky				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sky=Recipient
2	beg speech: request	past	He not said here		the gods			for death	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent god=Recipient for death=Topic

Option 3

He prayed to the saints

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 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 saints	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 saints	det
5	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	He					to the saints	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He wept his loneliness out

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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 loneliness	nmod:poss
4	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wept	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 wept	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep out	past	He	his loneliness					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent loneliness=Theme

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