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

Was the bear actually scared of the boar, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bear

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bear	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	csubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 boar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boar	det
8	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 scared	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bear					tree rules

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

Yeah, it went off crying like a kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 kid	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	it						tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund						like a kid	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, it rolled over and ran off whimpering like a baby back to its den

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rolled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rolled	nsubj
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 rolled	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	whimpering	whimper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ran	advcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 baby	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whimpering	obl
13	back	back	ADV	_	9 whimpering	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 den	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 den	nmod:poss
16	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	roll over	past	it	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run off	past			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whimper	gerund		like a baby	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, it sat there and grinned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grinned	cc
7	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	it			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grin	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it ran off whimpering like a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	whimpering	whimper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ran	advcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 baby	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whimpering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whimper	gerund						like a baby	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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