Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

Sound, why did the boys turn on Fionn at the lake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boys · What happens: turn · To what, where: Fionn

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 turn	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sound	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Fionn	case
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · do-support	the boys			Fionn		at the lake	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on fionn=Source at lake=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he beat them at everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	he	them = they		everything			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 2

he beat them at everything, even the hurling their own mothers loved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 beat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hurling	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 hurling	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hurling	det
9	hurling	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 beat	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mothers	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mothers	amod
12	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 loved	nsubj
13	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hurling	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	beat	past	he	them = they	everything	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	hurl	gerund	he not said here			tree rules
3	love	past	their own mothers			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

he beat them at everything and laughed at every one who lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 beat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laughed	cc
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughed	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lost	nsubj
12	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beat	past	he	them = they	everything		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	laugh	past	he not said here			at every one	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past	every one				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he was too good at games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 games	case
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			games		good property	tree rules

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