Test 13 · ★ · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

Did he climb the big tree in the end, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: climb · To what, where: big tree, end

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climb	nsubj
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 climb	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past · do-support	he	the big tree			in the end		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

yes, the one that nobody in the glen could climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 climb	obj
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 climb	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 glen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 glen	det
9	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nobody	nmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 climb	aux
11	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	could	nobody	the one					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, the one nobody could climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 climb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nobody	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nobody	compound
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 climb	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	aux
7	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	could	nobody						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

no, he gave up at the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he			the bottom			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, the tall one by the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod

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

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