Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

Mental, what did Fionn say about the Dark Man?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mental	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 Man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Man	det
9	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Man	amod
10	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Fionn					about the Dark Man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

he is my foe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 foe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 foe	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foe	nmod:poss
4	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	my foe					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ah, he is my worst enemy and I name him so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 enemy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 enemy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enemy	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 enemy	nmod:poss
6	worst	worst	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 enemy	amod
7	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 name	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 name	nsubj
10	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enemy	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 name	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	10 name	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	my worst enemy					tree rules
2	name	present	I	him = he					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

I name him as my enemy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 name	nsubj
2	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 name	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 enemy	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 enemy	nmod:poss
6	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present	I	him = he				as my enemy	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as enemy=Attribute

Option 4

I name him as my friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 name	nsubj
2	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 name	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present	I	him = he				as my friend	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as friend=Attribute

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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