Test 8 · ★ · Irish Myths, Tuan mac Cairill, part 3: Tuan becomes a stag…

Did the stag have a proper loud voice or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: stag · What happens: have · To what, where: proper loud voice

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stag	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stag	det
3	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 voice	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voice	amod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voice	amod
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 voice	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the stag	a proper loud voice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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, it was rough and hoarse, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 rough	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rough	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rough	cop
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hoarse	cc
7	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rough	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mad	punct
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	rough property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	be				tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, loud and clear and sweet, sick, like a harp in the night air over Ulster

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loud	punct
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clear	cc
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loud	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sweet	cc
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loud	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sick	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loud	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 harp	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 harp	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 harp	det
13	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loud	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 air	compound
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harp	nmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 Ulster	case
19	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 air	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Yeah, loud and clear and sweet, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loud	punct
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clear	cc
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loud	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sweet	cc
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loud	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sick	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loud	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nah, it was harsh and screechy at first, then loud and clear and sweet, sick, innit mate

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 harsh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 harsh	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 harsh	cop
5	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 screechy	cc
7	screechy	screechy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harsh	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 harsh	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loud	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 loud	advmod
12	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harsh	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clear	cc
14	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harsh	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sweet	cc
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harsh	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sick	punct
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harsh	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mate	punct
20	innit	innit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mate	amod
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harsh	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		innit mate vocative; harsh property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	be			then		tree rules
4	be					tree rules
5	be					tree rules
6	be					tree rules

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