Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

ngl the bit where fiacuil just bounced was sus

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fiacuil, bit · What happens: ngl, bounce, be · To what, where: sus

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sus	nsubj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 bounced	advmod
5	fiacuil	fiacuil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bounced	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 bounced	advmod
7	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bit	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sus	cop
9	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	bounce	past	fiacuil		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the bit	sus	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

he was just messing about

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	4 messing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 messing	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 messing	advmod
4	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 messing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess about	past · progressive	he					about property	tree rules

Option 2

he was fine

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	3 fine	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fine property	tree rules

Option 3

it was kinda funny tbh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 funny	advmod
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	4 funny	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					funny, kinda, tbh property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was lowkey scared fr

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	5 fr	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fr	cop
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fr	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fr	amod
5	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	lowkey scared fr					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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