Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

ok so was the wind still going at the end

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wind · What happens: go · To what, where: end

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1044 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 12: Fionn waits alone in the dark, meets his old friend Fiacuil, and gets ready for the Man of the Shi'» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 going	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the wind				at the end; still		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location

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

yeah it kept blowing hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 blowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it						tree rules
2	blow	gerund						hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

yeah it kept blowing and got stronger over the marsh the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 got	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 marsh	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 marsh	det
10	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it		time		tree rules
2	blow	gerund					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	get	past		the marsh		strong property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over marsh=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah it had stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · perfect	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

nah it was still blowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 blowing	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blowing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blowing	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 blowing	advmod
5	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · progressive	it				still		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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