Test 4 · ★ · Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked…

Did Fionn actually carry him home or just leave him there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: carry, leave · To what, where: Fionn

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Fionn	aux
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 carry	advmod
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carry	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 carry	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 leave	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 leave	advmod
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carry	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leave	obj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 leave	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present		Fionn				actually, home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	leave	infinitive		Fionn		there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

Nah, he left him sitting on the grass with the hounds nearby watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 left	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hounds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hounds	det
12	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sitting	obl
13	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	14 watching	advmod
14	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	him = he			tree rules
2	sit	gerund	him = he not said here		the grass	with the hounds	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
3	watch	gerund	him = he not said here			nearby property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He lifted him onto his shoulder and carried him home singing

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 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	obj
4	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 shoulder	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shoulder	nmod:poss
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 carried	cc
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carried	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 carried	advmod
11	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 carried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	He	him = he	his shoulder		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme onto shoulder=Destination
2	carry	past	He not said here	him = he		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	sing speech: express	gerund	He not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He set him down and walked him home quietly with the hounds

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 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walked	cc
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walked	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hounds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hounds	det
12	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set down	past	He	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
2	walk	past	He not said here	him = he				with the hounds; home, quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

Option 4

He carried him home

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	He	him = he				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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