Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn s…

was Goll's submission actually sick or was he just being a snake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Goll · What happens: be · To what, where: submission, snake

This is test 4 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 submission	cop
2	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 submission	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Goll	case
4	submission	submission	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sick	csubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 sick	advmod
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 snake	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 snake	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 snake	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 snake	advmod
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 snake	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 snake	det
13	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sick	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Goll's submission					tree rules
2	is a	past	Goll	a snake					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he did it so well he didn't lose any face

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lose	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 did	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lose	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lose	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lose	advmod
9	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 face	det
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	past · do-support	he	any face					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Eventuality

Option 2

he was dead sneaky about it

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 sneaky	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sneaky	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sneaky	amod
4	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sneaky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about it; sneaky property	tree rules

Option 3

he was a total snake

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	5 snake	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a total snake					tree rules

Option 4

he bent low but kept his pride

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 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bent	xcomp
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pride	nmod:poss
7	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend	past	he		low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	he not said here	his pride		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme
3	pride		his = he			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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