Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv t…

Why did she pick Fergus, like, of all people?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: pick · To what, where: Fergus

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1046 «Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv turns the queen into a hound and sends her to Fergus» 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 pick	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pick	nsubj
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 people	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pick	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past · do-support	she	Fergus				of all people	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fergus=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

Cause he's the best at magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 best	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 best	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 best	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 magic	case
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			magic		good property	tree rules

Option 2

Cause he's the meanest, pal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 meanest	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meanest	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meanest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meanest	det
5	meanest	mean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pal	punct
7	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meanest	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					mean property	tree rules

Option 3

Cause he hates dogs more than anyone, the eejit, and he'd never let one in

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 hates	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hates	nsubj
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hates	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 hates	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 hates	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eejit	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eejit	det
10	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anyone	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hates	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 let	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	16 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	he	dogs				than anyone	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
2	not let in	would	he	one					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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

Cause he hates dogs, the eejit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 hates	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hates	nsubj
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eejit	advcl
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hates	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hates	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eejit	det
7	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	he	dogs					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

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