Test 10 · ★ · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What did Finegas say his poems were, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Finegas · What happens: say · To what, where: poems · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1041 «Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge, part 9: Fionn beats the king at chess, is unmasked, and goes to learn from Finegas» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 poems	nmod:poss
6	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 like	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	6 poems	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Finegas	Finegas's poems					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme poem=Manner

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

the ones he's fit for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ones	det
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	cop
5	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	5 fit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	the ones not said here				fit property	tree rules

Option 2

the ones he can make

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ones	det
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	he	the ones not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product

Option 3

fine verses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 verses	amod
2	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

his old songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 songs	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 songs	amod
3	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing		his = he						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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