Test 11 · ★ · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…

real talk, why did Cormac say Flahri was wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cormac, Flahri · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1055 «Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast starts a hall-wide fight, then judges at Tara give their ruling» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Cormac	Cormac	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
8	Flahri	Flahri	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wrong	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Cormac						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Flahri					wrong property	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

Flahri lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flahri	Flahri	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Flahri						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He was wrong

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	3 wrong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					wrong property	tree rules

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

Fionn was the captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 captain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 captain	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fionn	the captain					tree rules

Option 4

Fionn was the chief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chief	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chief	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fionn	the chief					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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