Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

Grand, what happened to the animals when Fionn went hunting?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: happen, go, hunt

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Grand	parataxis
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 went	advmod
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 went	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Grand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	past		to the animals	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Fionn		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hunt	gerund	Fionn not said here		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

they sought him out, and every deer came to his feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sought	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 deer	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek out	past	they	him = he					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	come	past	every deer			deer's feet			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they sought him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sought	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek out	past	they	him = he					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they hid from him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they					from him = he	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from he=Beneficiary

Option 4

they sought him out and gathered round him in the glen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sought	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gathered	cc
6	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gathered	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 glen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 glen	det
11	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek out	past	they	him = he					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	gather	past	they not said here			the glen		round him = he	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1040-pg2892-part8/t5/