Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

Mate, did Fionn actually chuck his spear at the fawn?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: chuck · To what, where: spear, fawn

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuck	aux
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 chuck	advmod
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 spear	nmod:poss
8	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 fawn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fawn	det
11	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past · do-support	Fionn	Fionn's spear		the fawn		Mate vocative; actually property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at fawn=Destination

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

Yeah, he hurled it hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hurled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hurled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurled	nsubj
4	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurled	obj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hurled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl	past	he	it				hard property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he threw it hard and missed the fawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 threw	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 missed	cc
8	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fawn	det
10	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	it				hard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	miss	past	he not said here	the fawn					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fawn=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he never used it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 used	advmod
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he never used it and kept it for later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 used	advmod
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 later	case
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 kept	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	8 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	past	he not said here	it				late property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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