Test 8 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Right, why did the women keep chasing each other round the house?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: women · What happens: keep, chase · To what, where: each, house

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 women	det
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 chasing	obj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chasing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the women						tree rules
2	chase	gerund	the women not said here	each		the house			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme round house=Trajectory

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

They were chasing the flies out of the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chasing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chasing	aux
3	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flies	det
5	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chasing	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chasing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	They	the flies		the room			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fly=Theme out room=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They were checking the clouds and shadows and bones to see what the future would bring to the boy

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 checking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 checking	aux
3	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clouds	det
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 checking	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shadows	cc
7	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clouds	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bones	cc
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clouds	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 checking	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 bring	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 future	det
14	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bring	aux
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 boy	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	check	past · progressive	They	the clouds and shadows and bones		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	They not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bring	would	the future		the boy	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme to boy=Destination

Option 3

They were arguing about who got the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arguing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arguing	aux
3	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arguing	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	They						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past		the bread					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were having a whisper about something secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 having	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whisper	det
5	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 whisper	nmod
8	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	They	a whisper				about something	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisper=Patient

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