Test 13 · ★ · Irish Myths, Tuan mac Cairill, part 3: Tuan becomes a stag…

Why is it hard to kill a bear, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: bear

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1035 «Irish Myths, Tuan mac Cairill, part 3: Tuan becomes a stag, a boar, a hawk, then a salmon» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hard	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					then	hard property	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive		a bear					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=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's too big, mate

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	4 big	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					mate vocative; big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His life is packed deep under his stinky pelt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 packed	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 packed	aux:pass
4	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 packed	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 pelt	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pelt	nmod:poss
8	stinky	stinky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pelt	amod
9	pelt	pelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 packed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	present · passive		His life		life's stinky pelt		deep property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under pelt=Destination

Option 3

His hide is thick as stone, mate, too tough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hide	nmod:poss
2	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thick	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thick	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stone	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tough	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 tough	advmod
11	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	His hide					as stone and mate; thick property	tree rules
2	be		His hide not said here						tree rules

Option 4

He's too strong

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	4 strong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					strong property	tree rules

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