Test 12 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

Were the folk at the feast sad when Fionn left?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: folk, feast, Fionn

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1043 «Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defend Tara against Aillen» 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 folk	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 folk	det
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feast	det
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folk	nmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 left	advmod
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj:pass
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sad	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the folk		the feast			tree rules
2	leave	participle · passive		Fionn					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They wished him luck but dreaded it

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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	obj
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 dreaded	cc
6	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dreaded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	They	him = he					tree rules
2	dread	past	They not said here	luck					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

They laughed and drank his health

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 drank	cc
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 health	nmod:poss
6	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	They not said here	his health					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient

Option 3

They wished him luck but dreaded the coming night and the fight with Aillen

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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	obj
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 dreaded	cc
6	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dreaded	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fight	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fight	det
12	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 night	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Aillen	case
14	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dreaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	They	him = he			tree rules
2	dread	past	They not said here		night	with Aillen	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They wished him luck but dreaded what he would face at the mound of Samhain alone

The tree, 16 words

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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	obj
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 dreaded	cc
6	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	conj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 face	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 face	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 face	aux
10	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dreaded	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 mound	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mound	det
13	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 face	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Samhain	case
15	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mound	appos
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 Samhain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wish	past	They	him = he		tree rules
2	dread	past	They not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	face	would	he		the mound	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Destination

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