Test 11 · ★ · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What was Fionn hoping for while he was there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: hope, be

This is test 11 · ★ 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 hoping	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hoping	aux
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hoping	nsubj
4	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 there	case
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 there	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 there	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hoping	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hoping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past · progressive	Fionn						tree rules
2	is	past	Fionn					there property	tree rules

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

to catch the salmon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 salmon	det
4	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		the salmon					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme

Option 2

to win the hazel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hazel	det
4	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		the hazel					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hazel=Eventuality

Option 3

to meet the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 meet	mark
2	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	to-infinitive		the king					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent

Option 4

to catch the Salmon of Knowledge and become the wisest man alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 become	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Salmon	det
4	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Knowledge	case
6	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Salmon	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 become	cc
8	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	xcomp
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	the Salmon of Knowledge					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme
2	become	imperative	you not said here	the wisest man				alive property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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