Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio…

Cringe, what's so special about the spear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cringe · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1039 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fionn is spared by the robber Fiacuil and carried off to his marsh den» 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	Cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 special	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 special	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 special	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 special	advmod
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cringe	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 spear	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spear	det
9	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 special	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Cringe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cringe					about the spear; special property	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

Silver studs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 studs	amod
2	studs	stud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gold rivets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rivets	compound
2	rivets	rivet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Its ability to cut through any shield or bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ability	nmod:poss
2	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cut	mark
4	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 shield	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 shield	det
7	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 bone	cc
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shield	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	to-infinitive	Its ability					through any shield or bone	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through shield=Patient

Option 4

Its thirty gold rivets from Arabia and faery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rivets	nmod:poss
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rivets	nummod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rivets	compound
4	rivets	rivet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Arabia	case
6	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rivets	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 faery	cc
8	faery	faery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rivets	conj

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

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