Test 6 · ★ · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

Boys are only good for slings and nicking dinner, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Boys · What happens: be, nick · To what, where: dinner

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 slings	case
6	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nicking	cc
8	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 good	conj
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nicking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 yeah	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 good	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Boys					for slings; good property	tree rules
2	nick	gerund	Boys not said here	dinner					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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, Confro reckons boys are only good for slings and nicking dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Confro	Confro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckons	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 slings	case
10	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nicking	cc
12	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 good	conj
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nicking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Confro			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	boys		for slings; good property	tree rules
3	nick	gerund	boys not said here	dinner		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, Confro reckons boys are good for nets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
3	Confro	Confro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 good	advcl
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 good	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 nets	case
9	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Confro						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	boys					for nets; good property	tree rules

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

Yeah, Confro reckons boys are only good for slings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Confro	Confro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckons	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 slings	case
10	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Confro						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	boys					for slings; good property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, Confro reckons girls are good for slings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Confro	Confro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 good	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckons	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 slings	case
9	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Confro						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	girls					for slings; good property	tree rules

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