Test 12 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn s…

so what's the big lesson, the past is just behind us, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: past · What happens: be · To what, where: big lesson

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lesson	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lesson	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lesson	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lesson	amod
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 us	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 past	det
9	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 us	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 us	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 us	advmod
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lesson	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 us	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	6 lesson	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lesson	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the big lesson					tree rules
2	is	present	the past					behind us	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

nah, the future is behind you, blocking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 you	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 future	det
4	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 you	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 you	cop
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blocking	punct
9	blocking	block	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 you	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the future					behind you	tree rules
2	block	gerund							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

nah, the past is in front of us, blocking the road, and you can't just walk around it

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 front	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 past	det
4	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 front	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 front	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blocking	punct
11	blocking	block	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 front	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blocking	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walk	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 walk	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 walk	nsubj
17	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 walk	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 walk	advmod
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 walk	advmod
20	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 front	parataxis
21	around	around	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the past		front	of us	tree rules
2	block	gerund	the past not said here	the road			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme
3	not walk	can	you		past		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the past is behind us where it belongs, and you can forget it and move on

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 us	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 past	det
4	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 us	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 us	cop
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 belongs	nsubj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 belongs	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 belongs	nsubj
10	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forget	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forget	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 forget	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 forget	aux
15	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 belongs	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forget	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 move	cc
18	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forget	conj
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the past		behind us	tree rules
2	belong	present	us			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	forget	can	you	past		tree rules
4	move on	infinitive	you not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the past is in front, blocking the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 front	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 past	det
4	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 front	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blocking	punct
9	blocking	block	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 front	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blocking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the past			front			tree rules
2	block	gerund	the past not said here	the road					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme

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