Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound…

Was Fergus mad or chill when the servant gave the advice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servant · What happens: be, chill, give · To what, where: advice

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
2	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mad	compound
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 chill	cc
5	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mad	conj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gave	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 servant	det
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 advice	det
11	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			mad property	tree rules
2	chill	infinitive				tree rules
3	give	past	the servant	the advice		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme

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

Chill at first, then he went mad, roaring and turning all red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 first	case
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Chill	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 went	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Chill	conj
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roaring	punct
10	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Chill	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turning	cc
12	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 roaring	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 turning	obj
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 all	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chill	imperative	you not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past	he		then	mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roar	gerund	you not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	gerund	you not said here	all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent all=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mad, he got super angry, roared, and turned bright red in the face

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	parataxis
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 roared	punct
8	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turned	cc
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	conj
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 red	amod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turned	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 face	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 face	det
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	he		angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	roar	past	he not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	past		the face	red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in face=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mad, he was roaring and red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 roaring	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 roaring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 roaring	aux
5	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Mad	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 red	cc
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past · progressive	he						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4

Chill, he was just smiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 smiling	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smiling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smiling	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 smiling	advmod
6	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Chill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	imperative	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	smile	past · progressive	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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