Test 4 · ★ · Irish Myths, Tuan mac Cairill, part 3: Tuan becomes a stag…

Why'd the wolves run away, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolves · What happens: run away

This is test 4 · ★ 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	5 run	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	would	the wolves					bruv vocative; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

The boar's wriggling snout and his huge tusks scared them off, like, and they bolted into the hills

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boar	det
2	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snout	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boar	case
4	wriggling	wriggling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snout	compound
5	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scared	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tusks	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tusks	nmod:poss
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tusks	amod
9	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snout	conj
10	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scared	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 scared	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	10 scared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bolted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bolted	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bolted	nsubj
18	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scared	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 hills	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hills	det
21	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bolted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	past	the boar's wriggling snout and his huge tusks	tusks = tusk					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
2	bolt	past	snout			the hills			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hill=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the boar's snout wriggled and he went mad, bruv, so they legged it all the way home

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 snout	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boar	det
3	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snout	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 boar	case
5	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wriggled	obl
6	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wriggled	conj
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mad	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 legged	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 legged	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 legged	nsubj
16	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wriggled	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 legged	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 way	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 legged	obl
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wriggle	past			cos the boar's snout	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	he		mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leg	past	they	bruv	all way obl	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The boar's snout and tusks scared them, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boar	det
2	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snout	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boar	case
4	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tusks	cc
6	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snout	conj
7	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	7 scared	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past	the boar's snout and tusks	tusks = tusk					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4

Cos the stag's antlers scared them, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 scared	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stag	det
3	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 antlers	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 stag	case
5	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scared	nsubj
6	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past	the stag's antlers	them = they				bruv obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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