Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

Ah here, what did the sons of Morna say about Fionn after he came home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sons, Fionn · What happens: do, say, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1040 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is hunted, leaves the boys' lake and serves a king» 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 here	discourse
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 did	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sons	det
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Morna	case
9	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sons	nmod
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 Fionn	case
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the sons of Morna		about Fionn	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past	Fionn		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

"Kill him"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
2	Kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Kill	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

"Watch him"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Watch	punct
2	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Watch	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Watch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch in a quote	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

"Bring him in"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	2 Bring	compound:prt
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring in in a quote	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Let him be"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	be in a quote	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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