Test 6 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

Was Goll grand with it, or was he sulking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Goll grand · What happens: be, sulk · To what, where: Goll grand

This is test 6 · ★ 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	3 grand	cop
2	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grand	compound
3	grand	grand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sulking	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grand	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sulking	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 sulking	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sulking	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sulking	nsubj
10	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sulking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Goll grand				with grand	tree rules
2	sulk	past · progressive	Goll grand						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

He sipped his wine, no twinkle

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 sipped	nsubj
2	sipped	sip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wine	nmod:poss
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sipped	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 twinkle	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 twinkle	det
7	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sip	past	He	his wine and no twinkle					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

Option 2

He sipped his wine with no twinkle in his eye, but sat smiling at the king

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 sipped	nsubj
2	sipped	sip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wine	nmod:poss
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sipped	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 twinkle	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 twinkle	det
7	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sipped	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eye	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eye	nmod:poss
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 twinkle	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sipped	conj
14	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smiling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sip	past	He	his wine	with no twinkle in his eye	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
2	sit	past	He not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	smile	gerund	He not said here		at the king	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He spat out the wine, angry

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 spat	nsubj
2	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 spat	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wine	det
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spat out	past	He	the wine					tree rules

Option 4

He raised his cup, all smiles

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 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cup	nmod:poss
4	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smiles	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 smiles	det
7	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	He	his cup and all smiles					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

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