Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

Ah no, why did Fionn leave the boys' lake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: leave · To what, where: lake

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	7 leave	discourse
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Ah	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 leave	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	aux
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boys	det
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lake	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 boys	case
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	Fionn	the boys's lake					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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

they turned against him and plotted his death in the dark

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plotted	cc
6	plotted	plot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 death	nmod:poss
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plotted	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			against him = he	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory
2	plot	past	they not said here	his death	the dark		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent death=Theme in dark=Destination
3	die		his = he				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

they turned against him after he beat them at every game they played

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obl
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 beat	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beat	nsubj
7	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beat	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 game	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 game	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 played	nsubj
13	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 game	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			against him = he	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory
2	beat	past	he	them = they	every game		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	play	past	they	every game not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they turned against 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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they					against him = he	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory

Option 4

the king had banished him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 banished	aux
4	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 banished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	past · perfect	the king	him = he					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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