Test 2 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

Yer man Conn, what's he after doing with the horn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: do

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	nsubj
3	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 man	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 doing	obj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 doing	mark
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 horn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horn	det
12	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	Yer's man					with the horn	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 · ← Mova's choice

Giving the horn of state, which only the king may hold, to the stranger

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horn	det
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 state	case
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horn	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hold	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hold	obj
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 king	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hold	aux
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 horn	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stranger	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 stranger	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stranger	det
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		the horn of state	the stranger				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horn=Theme to stranger=Recipient
2	hold	may	the king	the horn of state					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 2

Handing the horn of state to Fionn with both hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horn	det
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Handing	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 state	case
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horn	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Fionn	case
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Handing	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hands	det
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Handing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	gerund		the horn of state	Fionn			with both hands	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme to fionn=Destination

Option 3

Offering it to Goll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Offering	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Goll	case
4	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Offering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	gerund		it	Goll				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to goll=Goal

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Handing it to Fionn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Handing	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Fionn	case
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Handing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	gerund		it	Fionn				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to fionn=Destination

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