Test 9 · ★ · Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked…

Who was the mean old fella who was chasing the deer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mean old fella · What happens: be, chase · To what, where: mean old fella, deer

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fella	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fella	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fella	det
4	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fella	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fella	amod
6	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 chasing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chasing	aux
9	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fella	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 deer	det
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chasing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fella	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mean old fella					tree rules
2	chase	past · progressive	the mean old fella	the deer					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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 · ← Mova's choice

A dark stranger who spoke sweetly then shouted at the hounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stranger	amod
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stranger	acl:relcl
6	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	5 spoke	advmod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shouted	advmod
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 hounds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hounds	det
11	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	a dark stranger					sweetly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	participle · passive		a dark stranger			then	at the hounds	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2

The dark man, who talked soft one minute and roared the next, and who came with a hazel rod in his hand and a cloak of black

The tree, 27 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 talked	nsubj
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 minute	amod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 minute	nummod
9	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 roared	cc
11	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 next	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roared	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 rod	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rod	det
20	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rod	compound
21	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cloak	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cloak	det
27	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hand	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 black	case
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cloak	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the dark man			minute		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roar	past	the dark man not said here	the next				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location next=Theme
3	come	past			man's hand and a cloak of black		with a hazel rod	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dark man, who talked soft one minute and roared the next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 talked	nsubj
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 minute	amod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 minute	nummod
9	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 roared	cc
11	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 next	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the dark man				minute		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roar	past	the dark man not said here	the next					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location next=Theme

Option 4

A hunter with a rod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rod	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rod	det
5	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunter	nmod

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

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