Test 2 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Wait, who's the big hard lad with the huge shoulders and the sneery face?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: big hard lad

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lad	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lad	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lad	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lad	amod
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lad	amod
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 shoulders	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoulders	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoulders	amod
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lad	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 face	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 face	det
15	sneery	sneery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoulders	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the big hard lad				with the huge shoulders and the sneery face	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

the sons of Morna, big and mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sons	det
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 big	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Morna	case
4	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sons	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mean	cc
8	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Morna, the Connachtman, and his lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Connachtman	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Connachtman	det
4	Connachtman	Connachtman	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Morna	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lot	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lot	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lot	nmod:poss
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Morna	list

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Morna, the Connachtman, and his whole gang of sons who lived down by the lake

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Connachtman	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Connachtman	det
4	Connachtman	Connachtman	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Morna	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gang	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gang	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gang	nmod:poss
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gang	amod
9	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Morna	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sons	case
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gang	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sons	acl:relcl
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 lived	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live down	past	sons					by the lake	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lake=Location

Option 4

Uail and his hard crew, proper nasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crew	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crew	nmod:poss
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crew	amod
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Uail	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Uail	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nasty	amod
8	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Uail	parataxis

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

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