Test 1 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Yo, so Fionn's aunts were basically whipping him round a tree with thorn sticks, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunts · What happens: whip · To what, where: Fionn

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1038 «Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn trains hard, learns to swim, and is left sneezing in a tree» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 whipping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 whipping	advmod
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 aunts	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Fionn	case
6	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 whipping	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whipping	aux
8	basically	basically	ADV	_	9 whipping	advmod
9	whipping	whip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whipping	obj
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whipping	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
15	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sticks	compound
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tree	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whipping	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	9 whipping	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 whipping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	past · progressive	Fionn's aunts	Fionn				round a tree with thorn sticks; basically property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah mate, he had to run from the switch and then swap places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 mate	discourse
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mate	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 switch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 switch	det
10	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swap	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 swap	advmod
13	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	conj
14	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 swap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	mate				tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	mate not said here		the switch		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from switch=Trajectory
3	swap	infinitive	mate not said here	places		then	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

Option 2

Nah bruv, he just stood there and got whacked by the switch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 bruv	discourse
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bruv	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stood	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 whacked	cc
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whacked	aux:pass
10	whacked	whack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stood	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 switch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 switch	det
13	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	he	bruv		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	whack	past · passive	the switch						vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah mate, he ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 mate	discourse
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mate	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he	mate					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, not really mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mate	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mate	advmod
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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