Test 6 · ★ · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

Was the lark mad loud up in the sky, like proper loud?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, lou up · To what, where: lark, sky

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lark	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lark	det
3	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lark	amod
5	loud	lou	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mad	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 loud	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loud	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 loud	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 loud	case
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	13 loud	advmod
13	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loud	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lark	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the lark					tree rules
2	lou up	participle				the sky			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

yes, thrilling and thrilling, far above the trees and clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 thrilling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thrilling	punct
3	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thrilling	cc
5	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thrilling	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 thrilling	advmod
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 far	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clouds	cc
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrill	gerund						far property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	thrill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

yes, thrilling and thrilling and very loud indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 thrilling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thrilling	punct
3	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thrilling	cc
5	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thrilling	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loud	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 loud	advmod
8	loud	loud	ADV	_	3 thrilling	advmod
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 loud	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrill	gerund						loud property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	thrill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yes, thrilling and thrilling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 thrilling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thrilling	punct
3	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thrilling	cc
5	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thrilling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	thrill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

yes, piercing and clear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 piercing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 piercing	punct
3	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clear	cc
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piercing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pierce	gerund							vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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