Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound…

Sus, why was Fionn confused on the last chase?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, confuse · To what, where: Fionn, last chase

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 confused	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 confused	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Fionn	cop
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 confused	nsubj:pass
6	confused	confuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Sus	appos
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 chase	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chase	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chase	amod
10	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confused	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Fionn					tree rules
2	confuse	participle · passive		Fionn		the last chase			vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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

He was drunk

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 drunk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux:pass
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		He					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

He lost sight of the fawn entirely

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fawn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fawn	det
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	sight of the fawn				entirely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
2	sight			the fawn					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He could not get what the dogs meant

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	4 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 meant	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 meant	nsubj
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean	past	the dogs						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 4

He was tired

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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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