Test 10 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's jour…

Did Tuan hold a grudge against the men who chased him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tuan, men · What happens: hold, chase · To what, where: grudge, Tuan

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1036 «Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's journey and rebirth» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	aux
2	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grudge	det
5	grudge	grudge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grudge	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 chased	nsubj
10	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chased	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · do-support	Tuan	a grudge				against the men	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grudge=Theme against man=Location
2	chase	past	the men	Tuan					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he swore revenge on every one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 one	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	he	revenge				on every one	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Eventuality

Option 2

Nah, he just says he got loads of scars from the chase, and that's all he cares about

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 says	advmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 scars	case
10	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loads	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 chase	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chase	det
13	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cares	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cares	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 all	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 all	cop
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 cares	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cares	nsubj
20	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 cares	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	past	he	loads of scars	the chase		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent load=Theme from chase=Source
3	care	present	all			about property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just says he got loads of scars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 says	advmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 scars	case
10	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	past	he	loads of scars					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, he said he'd get them back later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get back	would	he	them = they				late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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