Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

why did fionn walk out on samhain night tho

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fionn · What happens: walk out

This is test 5 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 walk	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	fionn	fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 walk	nsubj
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	samhain	samhain	X	_	8 night	compound
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
9	tho	tho	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	past · do-support	fionn				night	out, tho property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

cos only a madman would

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	co	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 would	cop
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 madman	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 madman	det
4	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 would	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

because the whole city was locked in and only a crazy person would walk out there

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 locked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 city	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 city	amod
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux:pass
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 locked	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 walk	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	14 walk	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
11	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 person	amod
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 walk	aux
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 locked	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 walk	advmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock in	past · passive		the whole city					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	walk out	would	a crazy person			there		out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cos he was bored at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	aux:pass
4	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cos	acl:relcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	past · passive		he		home			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

cos everyone else was too scared to leave the house on that night of the year

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	2 everyone	case
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 scared	obl
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 everyone	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 year	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cos everyone; scared property	tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive		the house			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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