Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

be real, what was the lie the teacher owned up to?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: be, own up · To what, where: lie

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lie	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 lie	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owned	nsubj
10	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 owned	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	10 owned	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			real property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the lie		tree rules
3	own up	past	the teacher	the lie not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lie=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

he forgot the rule about the salmon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 salmon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 salmon	det
7	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	the rule				about the salmon	tree rules

Option 2

he left out that the salmon was forbidden to anyone of the poet's blood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 left	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 forbidden	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salmon	det
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forbidden	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 forbidden	aux:pass
8	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 left	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 forbidden	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 blood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 poet	det
13	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blood	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 poet	case
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	past	he						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	forbid	past · passive		the salmon				to anyone	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he left out that the fish was sacred and could not be eaten by the boy

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 left	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sacred	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sacred	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sacred	cop
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 left	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eaten	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 eaten	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 eaten	aux:pass
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sacred	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 boy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eaten	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	leave out	past	he		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the fish	sacred property	tree rules
3	not eat	could · passive	the boy		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he left out that Fionn could not eat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 left	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 left	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	past	he						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not eat	could	Fionn	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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