Test 3 · ★ · Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked…

Lol so Bran and Sceo'lan just licked the kid's hands like he was a puppy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bran, kid · What happens: lick, be · To what, where: hands

This is test 3 · ★ 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 licked	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 licked	mark
3	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 licked	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Sceo'lan	cc
5	Sceo'lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Bran	conj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 licked	advmod
7	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 kid	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 licked	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	16 puppy	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 puppy	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 puppy	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 puppy	det
16	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 licked	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 licked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	past	Bran and Sceo'lan	the kid's hands					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source
2	is	past	kid					like a puppy	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

Yeah, super quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 quick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 quick	advmod
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, they licked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 licked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 licked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 licked	nsubj
4	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 licked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	past	they	him = he					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they went all whiny and licked his hands right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 whiny	advmod
6	whiny	whiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 licked	cc
8	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 licked	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					away, whiny property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lick	past	they not said here	his hands					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source

Option 4

Nah, they growled at him first and then sniffed his feet slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 growled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 growled	nsubj
4	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 growled	obl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 growled	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sniffed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sniffed	advmod
10	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 growled	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sniffed	obj
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 sniffed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	past	they					at him = he; first property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus
2	sniff	past	they not said here	his feet			then	slowly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme

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