Test 7 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv t…

Did Fergus really want the dog, or was he just being a sap?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: want, be · To what, where: Fergus, sap

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Fergus	aux
2	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	obl
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sap	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 sap	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sap	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sap	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 sap	advmod
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sap	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sap	det
14	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present		Fergus					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme
2	is a	past	dog	a sap					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

He wanted the dog, sure

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the dog					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He took it cause he's scared of the dogs anyway

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	7 scared	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 dogs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dogs	det
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scared	obl
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	it				anyway property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	he					of the dogs; scared property	tree rules

Option 3

He was just being soft

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 soft	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 soft	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					soft property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He only took it cause he can't say no to Fionn

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 took	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	9 say	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	parataxis
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 say	discourse
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Fionn	case
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	it	Fionn				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to fionn=Destination
2	not say speech: assert	can	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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