Test 10 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Ugh, what was the deal with the tree and the no sneezing rule?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 deal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rule	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rule	det
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 rule	det
13	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rule	compound
14	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the deal and the sneezing rule				with the tree	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

He had to sit in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He						tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	He not said here			it			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He had to sit in it and not cough or whistle or sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cough	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cough	advmod
9	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 whistle	cc
11	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cough	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sneeze	cc
13	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	have	past	He		tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	He not said here	it	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
3	not cough	infinitive	He not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	whistle	infinitive	He not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sneeze	infinitive	He not said here		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He had to stay in it till dawn and be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	obl
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 quiet	cc
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 quiet	cop
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He				tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	He not said here	it	dawn		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
3	is	infinitive	He not said here			quiet property	tree rules

Option 4

He had to hide in it and never sing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hide	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sing	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 sing	advmod
9	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hide	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	have	past	He		tree rules
2	hide	to-infinitive	He not said here	it	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
3	not sing speech: express	infinitive	He not said here	all	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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