Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

mate did fionn get paid for helping

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: do, pay · To what, where: fionn

This is test 8 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fionn	fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 paid	aux:pass
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 helping	case
7	helping	helping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	mate						tree rules
2	pay	infinitive · passive		fionn				for helping	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for helping=Theme

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

yeah a third and a seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 third	discourse
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 seat	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seat	det
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 third	conj

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

Option 2

yeah a cow and a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 cow	discourse
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cow	det
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 horse	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cow	conj

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

Option 3

yeah he got a whole load of gold and a horse and a seat at the council

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 got	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 load	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 load	amod
6	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 load	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horse	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seat	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 seat	det
14	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 council	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 council	det
17	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	a whole load of gold and a horse and a seat		the council			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent load=Theme at council=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah he didn't get paid at all cos fiacuil ran off before he got anything

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 paid	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 paid	nsubj:pass
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 paid	advmod
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 paid	aux:pass
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ran	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 cos	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 cos	det
9	cos	cos	ADV	Typo=Yes	11 ran	obl
10	fiacuil	fiacuil	X	_	9 cos	goeswith
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 got	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	advcl
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not pay	past · passive · do-support		he	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	run off	past			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cos=Trajectory
3	get	past	he	anything	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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