Test 12 · ★ · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

Whose whistle never got tired, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whistle · What happens: not get · To what, where: bruv

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1037 «Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up hidden in the woods, climbs trees, and is secretly visited by his mother» 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	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	2 whistle	nmod:poss
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 got	advmod
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	past	whistle	bruv				tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

the throstle's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 throstle	det
2	throstle	throstle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 throstle	case

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

Option 2

the throstle's whistle in the wood at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 throstle	det
2	throstle	throstle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whistle	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 throstle	case
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whistle	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dusk	case
9	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle		the throstle			the wood at dusk			nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the blackbird's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blackbird	det
2	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 blackbird	case

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

Option 4

the thrush's song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thrush	det
2	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 thrush	case
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing		the thrush						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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