Test 7 · ★ · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

What did Fionn reckon a boy couldn't do, like a horse can?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn, boy · What happens: reckon, not do

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckon	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 can	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 can	obl
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Fionn						tree rules
2	not do	could	a boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

wag his tail for the midges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wag	wag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wag	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 midges	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 midges	det
6	midges	midge	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wag	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	imperative	you not said here	his tail				for the midges	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 2

wag his tail for the flies in the summer heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wag	wag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wag	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 flies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flies	det
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wag	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 heat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heat	det
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heat	compound
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wag	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	imperative	you not said here	his tail				for the flies; in the summer heat	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Patient in heat=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

wag his tail for the flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wag	wag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wag	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 flies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flies	det
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wag	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	imperative	you not said here	his tail				for the flies	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 4

wag his tail for the flies and the midges too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wag	wag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wag	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 flies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flies	det
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wag	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 midges	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 midges	det
9	midges	midge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flies	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	1 wag	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	imperative	you not said here	his tail				for the flies and the midges	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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