Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn s…

why did Fionn put a weird condition on the wedding, was he being sus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: put, be · To what, where: weird condition, wedding

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 condition	det
6	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 condition	amod
7	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 wedding	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wedding	det
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sus	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sus	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sus	nsubj
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sus	cop
15	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 put	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	Fionn	a weird condition		the wedding			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme on wedding=Destination
2	is	past	Fionn					suspect property	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

he wanted her home if she got sad

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 home	nmod:poss
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 got	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	advcl
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	her home					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme
2	get a condition, not said to happen	past	she					sad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

he just wanted to keep her for himself and was being sus about her happiness

The tree, 15 words

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	3 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 keep	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sus	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sus	cop
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sus	cop
12	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 happiness	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 happiness	nmod:poss
15	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sus	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she	for himself = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is	past	he not said here		about her happiness; suspect property	tree rules

Option 3

he wanted her sent back to Tara right away if she was ever even a bit unhappy with the marriage

The tree, 20 words

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	ccomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Tara	case
7	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 unhappy	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unhappy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 unhappy	cop
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 unhappy	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 unhappy	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unhappy	obl:unmarked
17	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 away	advcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 marriage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 marriage	det
20	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he			with the marriage; away property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	send back	past	her = she	Tara			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tara=Destination
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Tara		ever	a bit obl:unmarked; unhappy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted her back if she was ever unhappy

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 unhappy	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unhappy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unhappy	cop
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 unhappy	advmod
9	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	past	he	her = she					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	she				ever	unhappy property	tree rules

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