Test 12 · ★ · Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked…

Lol, so did this lad become a proper fighter or just sit about singing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: become, sit, sing · To what, where: proper fighter

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1050 «Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked boy among the fighting hounds and takes him home as his own» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 become	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 become	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	aux
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	nsubj
7	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fighter	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fighter	amod
10	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sit	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 sit	advmod
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 become	conj
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	15 singing	mark
15	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sit	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 become	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	become	past · do-support	this lad	a proper fighter	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sit	infinitive	this lad not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	gerund	this lad not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 became a king of the Fianna, the finest hunter of his time

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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Fianna	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fianna	det
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 king	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hunter	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hunter	det
10	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 hunter	amod
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Fianna	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 time	nmod:poss
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	He	a king of the Fianna					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A fighter and poet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fighter	det
2	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 poet	cc
4	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fighter	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He stayed a lad and just sang songs by the fire every night

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sang	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sang	advmod
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	He	a lad			night		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lad=Location
2	sing speech: express	past	He not said here	songs				by the fire	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He grew up a great fighter and the top poet in the world

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 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 grew	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fighter	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fighter	amod
6	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 poet	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poet	det
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 poet	amod
10	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighter	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	He	a great fighter and the top poet		the world			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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