Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

Did the hounds' eyes look like they had a question in them?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eyes · What happens: look, have · To what, where: question

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eyes	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hounds	det
3	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eyes	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 hounds	case
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 look	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 question	det
11	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 question	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the hounds's eyes						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past	eyes = eye	a question				in hounds = hound	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=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

Yeah, a question and a statement and a silent plea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 question	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 question	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 statement	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statement	det
7	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 question	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 plea	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plea	det
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plea	amod
11	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 question	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yeah, they were full of fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 full	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fear	case
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					of fear; full property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a question and a statement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 question	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 question	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 statement	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statement	det
7	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 question	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they looked at Fionn in a way that meant nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Fionn	case
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	acl:relcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 meant	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					in a way; at Fionn	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fionn=Theme
2	mean	past	a way	nothing		all			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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