Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound…

Wait, what was the fawn doing when the chase started?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fawn, chase · What happens: wait, be, do, start · To what, where: fawn

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1047 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound, Tuiren is freed, Fionn chases a fawn» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fawn	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 fawn	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fawn	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fawn	det
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fawn	acl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 started	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chase	det
10	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 doing	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the fawn	tree rules
3	do	gerund	the fawn not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	start	participle	the chase		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

It was lying in the thicket until it leaped out suddenly at the men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 thicket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thicket	det
6	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 leaped	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leaped	nsubj
9	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 leaped	compound:prt
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 lying	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	It			the thicket		at the men; suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location
2	leap out	past	thicket						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It leaped out from the covert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaped	nsubj
2	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 leaped	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 covert	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 covert	det
6	covert	covert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap out	past	It			the covert			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from covert=Trajectory

Option 3

It was sleeping in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleeping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sleeping	aux
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	It			the grass			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location

Option 4

It was grazing in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grazing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grazing	aux
3	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grazing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	past · progressive	It			the field			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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