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

Wagon, what did the Fianna argue about at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wagon, Fianna · What happens: do, argue

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fianna	det
6	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 argue	nsubj
7	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 end	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 argue	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Wagon						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	argue speech: disagree	present	the Fianna				about the end		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about end=Topic

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 finest music in the world and who among them could sing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 music	det
2	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 music	amod
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sing	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 music	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 them	cc
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 them	nsubj
9	among	among	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 music	conj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sing	aux
12	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could	the finest music in the world	world					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the best weapon in the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weapon	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 weapon	amod
3	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weapon	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the finest music in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 music	det
2	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 music	amod
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 music	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the finest music in the world, and which harp could play it best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 music	det
2	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 music	amod
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 best	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 music	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 play	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 play	cc
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 harp	det
10	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 play	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 play	aux
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 music	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 play	obj
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	could	which harp	music					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

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