Test 3 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn s…

so Fionn's cloak just caught the fire like a net, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cloak · What happens: catch · To what, where: fire

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	6 caught	advmod
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cloak	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Fionn	case
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 caught	advmod
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 net	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 net	det
11	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 caught	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Fionn's cloak	the fire				like a net	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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

nah, it just bounced off and hit a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bounced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bounced	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 bounced	advmod
5	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 bounced	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hit	cc
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bounced	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rock	det
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce off	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	infinitive		a rock					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme

Option 2

yeah, it got caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

yeah, the flame went off the cloak into the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flame	det
4	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 cloak	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloak	det
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 soil	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soil	det
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the flame	the cloak		the soil			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the fire slid off and went down into the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 slid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slid	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slid	nsubj
5	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 slid	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slid	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide off	past	the fire						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go down	past	the fire not said here			the ground		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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