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

Lol, what did the duck say when Fionn grabbed it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: duck, Fionn · What happens: do, say, grab · To what, where: duck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duck	det
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 grabbed	advmod
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grabbed	nsubj
10	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grabbed	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the duck		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grab	past	Fionn	duck	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"Qu--" and it was gone before the quack finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
2	Qu	Qu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gone	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux:pass
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 quack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 quack	det
11	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
12	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 quack	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · passive		Qu			before the quack		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	finish	participle		the quack not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

"Quack" and it slipped out of his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Quack	punct
2	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slipped	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Quack	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slipped	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slipped	nsubj
6	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 hands	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip out	past	Quack	his hands					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3

"Qu--" and it flapped off fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
2	Qu	Qu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flapped	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flapped	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flapped	nsubj
7	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 flapped	compound:prt
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 flapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap off	past	Qu					fast property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

"Qu--" and it flew off before he could blink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
2	Qu	Qu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Qu	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flew	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 flew	compound:prt
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 blink	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blink	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 blink	aux
12	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 flew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	Qu						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blink	could	Qu						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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