Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuiren, part 15: Fergus loves the hound…

Fr, what did Fergus threaten to do to anyone who hurt his dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fergus · What happens: threaten, do, hurt · To what, where: Fr, dog

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 threaten	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 threaten	aux
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 threaten	nsubj
6	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fr	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 threaten	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hurt	nsubj
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 anyone	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dog	nmod:poss
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurt	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	Fergus	Fr		tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fergus not said here		to anyone	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	past		Fergus's dog		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=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

Flay them alive and then chop them into pieces and feed them to dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flay	flay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Flay	obj
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Flay	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chop	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 chop	advmod
6	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Flay	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chop	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 pieces	case
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chop	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feed	cc
11	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Flay	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feed	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 dogs	case
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	flay	imperative	you not said here	them = they			alive property	tree rules
2	chop	infinitive	you not said here	them = they		then	into pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into piece=Result
3	feed	present	you not said here	pieces = piece	dogs			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to dog=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Flay them and chop them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flay	flay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Flay	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 chop	cc
4	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Flay	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chop	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 chop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flay	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	chop up	infinitive	you not said here	them = they					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Chop off their hands and feet and throw the rest into the sea, bro

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	nsubj
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 hands	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chop	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feet	cc
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hands	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 throw	cc
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	infinitive	Chop off their hands and feet	the rest				into the sea and bro result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer rest=Theme into sea=Result

Option 4

Chase them out of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chase	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 hall	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chase	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the hall			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out hall=Trajectory

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