Test 6 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn s…

did Fionn literally have three hundred dogs, like a whole pack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: Fionn, hundred dogs

This is test 6 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
3	literally	literally	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dogs	nummod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pack	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 pack	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pack	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pack	amod
12	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dogs	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Fionn					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Eventuality
2	have	present		hundred dogs and a whole pack				literally property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient

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

nah, more like thirty dogs, and Fergus owned most of them and he threw stuff at them all day

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 more	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 owned	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dogs	nummod
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 more	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 owned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 owned	cc
9	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 owned	nsubj
10	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 owned	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 most	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	nsubj
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 owned	conj
17	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	Fergus	most of dogs					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot most=Theme
2	throw	past	Fergus	stuff			day	at dogs = dog	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme at they=Destination

Option 2

yeah, about three hundred, Bran was his fave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hundred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hundred	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hundred	punct
7	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fave	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fave	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fave	nmod:poss
10	fave	fave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hundred	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bran	Bran's fave					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, three hundred, and Bran and Sceo'lan were his faves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hundred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faves	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 faves	cc
7	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 faves	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Sceo'lan	cc
9	Sceo'lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bran	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 faves	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 faves	nmod:poss
12	faves	fave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bran and Sceo'lan	Sceo'lan's faves					tree rules

Option 4

yeah, three hundred dogs in the kennels, and Bran and Sceo'lan were his absolute faves of the whole pack

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dogs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 dogs	nummod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kennels	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kennels	det
8	kennels	kennel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dogs	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 faves	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 faves	cc
11	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 faves	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Sceo'lan	cc
13	Sceo'lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bran	conj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 faves	cop
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 faves	nmod:poss
16	absolute	absolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 faves	amod
17	faves	fave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dogs	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 pack	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pack	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pack	amod
21	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 faves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bran and Sceo'lan	Sceo'lan's absolute faves				of the whole pack	tree rules

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