Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio…

Wait, what did Fiacuil do to the poets?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Fiacuil · What happens: wait, do

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Fiacuil	Fiacuil	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 poets	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poets	det
9	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support	Fiacuil					to the poets	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Killed every single one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	participle		every single one					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Killed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Spared them all alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spared	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 them	nmod:unmarked
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past		them = they				alive property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset

Option 4

Robbed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Robbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	participle		them = they					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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