Test 3 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…
Was Aillen's grudge a serious thing or just a bit of craic?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: grudge
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grudge | cop |
| 2 | Aillen | Aillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grudge | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Aillen | case |
| 4 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | csubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 bit | cc |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 bit | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 craic | case |
| 13 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bit | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Aillen's grudge | 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
A serious revenge grudge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 grudge | det |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grudge | amod |
| 3 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grudge | compound |
| 4 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A grudge of revenge held since the battle of Moytura and never forgotten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 grudge | det |
| 2 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 revenge | case |
| 4 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grudge | nmod |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 battle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 battle | det |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Moytura | case |
| 10 | Moytura | Moytura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 battle | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forgotten | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 forgotten | advmod |
| 13 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 held | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle · passive | a grudge of revenge | since the battle of Moytura | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grudge | revenge | nom grudge «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | battle | Moytura | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
A deadly old quarrel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 quarrel | det |
| 2 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quarrel | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quarrel | amod |
| 4 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A serious grudge that Aillen would take revenge for at Samhain each year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grudge | det |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grudge | amod |
| 3 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 take | obj |
| 5 | Aillen | Aillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grudge | acl:relcl |
| 8 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Samhain | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Samhain | case |
| 11 | Samhain | Samhain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | Aillen | a serious grudge | year | for Samhain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme revenge=Destination |
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