Test 12 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Gutted for him, but who whispered that he was doing it on purpose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: gut, whisper, do · To what, where: it, purpose

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gutted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whispered	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 whispered	cc
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 whispered	nsubj
7	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gutted	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 doing	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 whispered	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 purpose	case
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doing	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gut	participle				for him = he	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	whisper speech: assert	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past · progressive	he	it	purpose		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

Some savage voice from the bottom of the tree where the roots were thick and dark and wet

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 voice	det
2	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottom	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 thick	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roots	det
12	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thick	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thick	cop
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dark	cc
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thick	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wet	cc
18	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the roots	thick property	tree rules
2	be		the roots not said here		tree rules
3	be		the roots not said here		tree rules

Option 2

A low voice from behind the big stone wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voice	det
2	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	9 wall	case
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wall	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wall	compound
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some savage voice from the bottom of the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 voice	det
2	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottom	nmod

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

Option 4

Some wild voice from the top of the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 voice	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod

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

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