Test 13 · ★ · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

Did Fionn just sit there and cry, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: sit, cry

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1049 «Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home and finds his wife turned into 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sit	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sit	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cry	cc
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 sit	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	Fionn			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	Fionn not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

He wept

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	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He shouted loud

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	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shouted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	He					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He beat his chest

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	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chest	nmod:poss
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	He	his chest					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme

Option 4

He hit the wall

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	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	He	the wall					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme

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