Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

Wicked, but why didn't the hounds bark on the chase?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hounds · What happens: not bark · To what, where: chase

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bark	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 bark	cc
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 bark	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bark	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bark	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hounds	det
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bark	nsubj
9	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 chase	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chase	det
12	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bark	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bark	past · do-support	the hounds			the chase			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They kept quite still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They				still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They kept totally silent the whole way through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 silent	advmod
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl:unmarked
8	through	through	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They	the whole way				silent, through property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They kept totally silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They					silent, totally property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They yapped at the deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 yapped	nsubj
2	yapped	yap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 deer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deer	det
5	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yap	past	They					at the deer	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at deer=Stimulus

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