Test 4 · ★ · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

Cona'n, what was the scrap at Allen about, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cona'n · What happens: be · To what, where: scrap, Allen

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Cona'n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scrap	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 scrap	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scrap	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scrap	det
6	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cona'n	appos
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Allen	case
8	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scrap	nmod
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 like	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 about	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 scrap	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Cona'n	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Cona'n	the scrap		Allen			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

a quarrel over a hound, both sides blamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarrel	det
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 hound	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hound	det
5	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarrel	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sides	punct
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sides	det
8	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quarrel	conj
9	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sides	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	participle		both sides not said here					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

eleven hundred dead, and both of them blaming each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dead	nummod
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blaming	mark
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blaming	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blaming	cc
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 blaming	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod
9	blaming	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 blaming	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund	both	each					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme

Option 3

eleven hundred dead, and both of them blaming each other for the feud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dead	nummod
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blaming	mark
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blaming	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blaming	cc
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 blaming	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod
9	blaming	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 blaming	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 feud	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feud	det
14	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund	both	each				for the feud	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent each=Theme for feud=Attribute

Option 4

nine hundred dead, and neither would give way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dead	nummod
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 give	csubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 give	cc
6	neither	neither	ADV	_	8 give	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would		way				neither property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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