Test 5 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Did Fionn actually manage to catch a fish, sound?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: manage, catch · To what, where: Fionn, sound, fish

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Fionn	aux
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 manage	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 manage	advmod
4	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sound	punct
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	present		Fionn				actually property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	catch	to-infinitive		sound	a fish				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent fish=Beneficiary sound=Theme

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

Yeah he grabbed a duck instead, which was a total mess and not a fish at all, lol

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 grabbed	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grabbed	nsubj
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 duck	det
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 mess	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 instead	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mess	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mess	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mess	det
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mess	amod
12	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fish	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fish	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mess	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 fish	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grabbed	punct
20	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 grabbed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	he	a duck					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme
2	is	past						instead a total mess and a fish at all	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, fish are mad quick, he couldn't catch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quick	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quick	amod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 catch	advmod
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 quick	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fish					quick property	tree rules
2	not catch	could	he	fish					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he grabbed one but it was dead slippery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 grabbed	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 slippery	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slippery	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slippery	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slippery	amod
10	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grabbed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	he	one					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	is	past	it					slippery property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, fish move in sudden spurts so he could never grab a single one of them in the water

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spurts	case
6	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spurts	amod
7	spurts	spurt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 grab	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grab	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grab	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 grab	advmod
12	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 move	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grab	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	fish			sudden spurts			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in spurt=Trajectory
2	not grab	could	he	a single one of fish		the water			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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