Test 5 · ★ · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…

wagwan, how did Fergus stop the whole ting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fergus · What happens: stop · To what, where: whole ting

This is test 5 · ★ 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	wagwan	wagwan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stop	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wagwan	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ting	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ting	amod
9	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wagwan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	Fergus	the whole ting					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ting=Eventuality

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

chanting long rhymes all over the whole hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chanting	chant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rhymes	amod
3	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chanting	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	1 chanting	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chanting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	gerund		long rhymes		the whole hall		all property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic

Option 2

chanting long rhymes that stopped every lad dead in their tracks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chanting	chant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rhymes	amod
3	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chanting	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stopped	nsubj
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rhymes	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	obj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lad	amod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tracks	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tracks	nmod:poss
11	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	gerund		long rhymes					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic
2	stop	past	long rhymes	every lad		rhymes's tracks			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality lad=Eventuality

Option 3

chanting old verses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chanting	chant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 verses	amod
3	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chanting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	gerund		old verses					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

chanting long rhymes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chanting	chant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rhymes	amod
3	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chanting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	gerund		long rhymes					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic

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