Test 1 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn s…

yo, did Aillen actually think his music would knock Fionn out, or was he just being a mad fairy lad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aillen, music · What happens: think, knock out, be · To what, where: Fionn, mad fairy lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1045 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn slays Aillen, Goll submits to Fionn, and Tuiren marries Iollan» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
4	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 music	nmod:poss
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knock	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 knock	aux
10	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	ccomp
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 knock	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 knock	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lad	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 lad	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lad	cop
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lad	nsubj
17	just	just	ADV	_	22 lad	advmod
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 lad	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lad	det
20	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lad	amod
21	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lad	compound
22	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	vocative
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	Aillen		actually property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	knock out	would	Aillen's music	Fionn		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fionn=Patient
3	is a	past	music	a mad fairy lad		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

he was dead sure it'd flatten Fionn, yeah

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 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sure	amod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flatten	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 flatten	aux
7	flatten	flatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	ccomp
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flatten	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flatten	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 flatten	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sure property	tree rules
2	flatten	would	it	Fionn					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument fionn=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah he knew it wouldn't work but he played anyway cos he was bored of the glen

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 knew	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 work	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 work	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	ccomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 played	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 played	advmod
12	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	15 bored	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bored	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bored	aux:pass
15	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 played	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 glen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 glen	det
18	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not work	would	it			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past	he		anyway property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bore	past · passive		he	of the glen	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he thought it would work, it was mint in his head

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 work	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mint	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mint	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mint	cop
9	mint	mint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mint	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	work	would	it			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it	his head	mint property	tree rules

Option 4

he reckoned it was a proper plan, like

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plan	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	2 reckoned	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a proper plan					tree rules

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