Test 3 · ★ · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…
Why did Fionn bolt from the feast, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: bolt, innit · To what, where: feast
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 bolt | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bolt | aux |
| 3 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bolt | nsubj |
| 4 | bolt | bolt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 feast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bolt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bolt | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bolt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | past · do-support | Fionn | the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from feast=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | Fionn not said here | tree rules |
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
Cos he was dead worried about Saeve, innit, after the ale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 worried | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worried | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worried | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worried | amod |
| 5 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Saeve | case |
| 7 | Saeve | Saeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 worried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 5 worried | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ale | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 ale | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ale | det |
| 13 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worried | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | about Saeve; worried property | tree rules |
Option 2
Cos he missed Saeve and wanted to check the Dun gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Saeve | Saeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wanted | cc |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 missed | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 check | mark |
| 8 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 10 | Dun | Dun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | compound |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 check | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | Cos | Saeve | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saeve=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Cos not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | check not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cos not said here | the Dun gate | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Cos he wanted sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cos | acl:relcl |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | sleep | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Cos he missed Saeve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Saeve | Saeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | Cos | Saeve | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saeve=Stimulus |
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