Test 1 · ★ · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

Yer man Goll was chucking out gold like sweets, wasn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: chuck out, not be · To what, where: gold, Goll

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1054 «Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 22: Goll outgives Fionn at the banquet and admits killing Fionn's father» 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	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chucking	nsubj
3	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 man	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chucking	aux
5	chucking	chuck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 chucking	compound:prt
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chucking	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 sweets	case
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chucking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chucking	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 he	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 he	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chucking	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chucking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck out	past · progressive	Yer's man	gold				like sweets	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	not is a	past		Goll					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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, not really, Fionn stayed chatty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	7 stayed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 really	punct
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Fionn					chatty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, mad amount, and Fionn went proper quiet and stared at the door

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 amount	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 amount	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 amount	amod
4	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amount	acl:relcl
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 quiet	advmod
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stared	cc
12	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Fionn	mad amount not said here				quiet property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location amount=Theme
2	stare	past	Fionn not said here					at the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, loads of it, and Fionn went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loads	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	loads of it					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mad amount, and Fionn went proper quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 amount	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 amount	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 amount	amod
4	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amount	acl:relcl
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 quiet	advmod
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Fionn	mad amount not said here				quiet property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location amount=Theme

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