Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

Bruv, did the storm sink the whole fleet?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: storm · What happens: sink · To what, where: whole fleet

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sink	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sink	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sink	nsubj
6	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fleet	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fleet	amod
9	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sink	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past · do-support	the storm	the whole fleet				Bruv vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient

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

Nah, a huge wave flipped and sank the whole lot of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wave	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wave	amod
5	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sank	nsubj
6	flipped	flip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wave	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flipped	cc
8	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lot	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lot	amod
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sank	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip	participle		a huge wave not said here					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	a huge wave	the whole lot of them					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, the whole fleet went down in the big storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fleet	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fleet	amod
5	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 storm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 storm	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 storm	amod
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the whole fleet					in the big storm; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in storm=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a wave sank a ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sank	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sank	nsubj
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	a wave	a ship					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

Option 4

Nah, they all survived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 survived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 survived	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	they						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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