Test 2 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's jour…

Bro, what was the salmon's whole deal with Ulster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: whole deal

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salmon	det
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 salmon	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Ulster	case
11	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro	the salmon's whole deal				with Ulster	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

He was just bored and swam off east

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 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swam	cc
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 swam	compound:prt
8	east	east	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules
2	swim off	past	He not said here					east property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was mad homesick and swam all the way back

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 homesick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 homesick	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 homesick	amod
4	homesick	homesick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swam	cc
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 homesick	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					homesick property	tree rules
2	swim	past	He not said here	all way					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

Option 3

He was mad homesick for Ulster and swam all the way back up the river, no stopping

The tree, 17 words

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 homesick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 homesick	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 homesick	amod
4	homesick	homesick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Ulster	case
6	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 homesick	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swam	cc
8	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 homesick	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 way	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swam	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	8 swam	advmod
13	up	up	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stopping	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 stopping	det
18	stopping	stopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 homesick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					for Ulster; homesick property	tree rules
2	swim	past	He not said here	all way					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

Option 4

He hated the sea and swam away

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	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swam	cc
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	He	the sea					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus
2	swim away	past	He not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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