Test 13 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Honestly, did the aunts think he'd be as good as his dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunts, he · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 aunts	det
5	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 good	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 good	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 good	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 think	ccomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 dad	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dad	nmod:poss
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 good	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the aunts					honestly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	he					as his dad; good property	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

No, they said he was far too weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 weak	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 weak	cop
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 weak	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 weak	advmod
9	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					far, weak property	tree rules

Option 2

Nope, one of his aunts said he never would be that good, and that was really very harsh of her

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 said	advcl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 aunts	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 aunts	nmod:poss
6	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 good	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 good	advmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 good	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 good	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 good	mark
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 harsh	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 harsh	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 harsh	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 harsh	cop
18	really	really	ADV	_	20 harsh	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 harsh	advmod
20	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 harsh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		of his aunts	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	would	he	good property	tree rules
3	is	past	that	of her = she; harsh property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, one said he never would, so harsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 would	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 would	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 harsh	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 harsh	advmod
10	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	one						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, one of them said he would be fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	one of them						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	he					fine property	tree rules

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