Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio…

Lowkey, how did Fionn get out of being killed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: get out, kill

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 killed	mark
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 killed	mark
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 killed	aux:pass
10	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 get	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past · do-support	Lowkey						tree rules
2	kill	gerund · passive	Lowkey not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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

Begged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	participle							vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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

Gave his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		his name					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Told a lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lie	det
3	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past		a lie					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient

Option 4

Ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	participle						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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