Test 8 · ★ · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What did Fionn do round the hut, grand?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: do

This is test 8 · ★ 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 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grand	punct
9	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hut	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Fionn					round the hut	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

fetched wood and cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetched	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cooked	cc
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 fetched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past		wood					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
2	cook	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

drew water, lit the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drew	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 drew	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past		water					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	light	past		the fire					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

Option 3

drew water from the well and lit the fire and mended his nets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drew	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drew	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lit	cc
7	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 drew	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lit	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mended	cc
11	mended	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 drew	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nets	nmod:poss
13	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mended	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past	water	the well	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location
2	light	past	the fire		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	mend	past	his nets		tree rules

Option 4

drew water, lit the fire, and sang to the river every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drew	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 drew	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sang	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sang	cc
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 drew	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sang	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sang	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	draw	past	water			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	light	past	the fire			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	sing speech: express	past		the river	night	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to river=Recipient

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