Test 4 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Was Goll Mor a proper nasty one or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Goll

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Goll	cop
2	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
3	Mor	Mor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Goll	flat
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 one	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Goll					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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was laughing loads, so people forgave him for the butchering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laughing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 forgave	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 forgave	advmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 forgave	nsubj
10	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forgave	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 butchering	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 butchering	det
14	butchering	butchering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	he	loads					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
2	forgive	past	people	him = he				for the butchering	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for butchering=Attribute

Option 2

Yeah, proper nasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 proper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nasty	amod
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, he was alright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 alright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alright	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alright	cop
5	alright	alright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					alright property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah he was mental, but his laughing made folks forget the killing lately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mental	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mental	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mental	cop
4	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 laughing	nmod:poss
8	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mental	advcl
10	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obj
11	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 killing	det
13	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forget	obj
14	lately	lately	ADV	_	4 mental	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		lately, mental property	tree rules
2	make	past	his laughing	folks		tree rules
3	forget	infinitive	folks not said here	the killing		tree rules

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