Test 12 · ★ · Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a stra…

Grand, and who went off to get the runner in the end, was it Cona'n or Fionn?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: runner · What happens: go off, get, be · To what, where: runner, end, Grand Cona'n

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1056 «Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a strange lord arrives by sea and challenges the Fianna to a contest» 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	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Cona'n	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Grand	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 runner	det
10	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grand	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Cona'n	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Cona'n	nsubj
17	Cona'n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 Fionn	cc
19	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Cona'n	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 Cona'n	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go off	past				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive		the runner	in the end	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer runner=Stimulus
3	is a	past	runner	Grand Cona'n or Fionn		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

Oisín, who was sent to get him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oisín	Oisín	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Oisín	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		Oisín					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive		Oisín					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fionn, he said he would fetch him himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fionn	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fetch	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fetch	aux
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fetch	obj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fionn						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	would	Fionn	Fionn	him = he				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary himself=Theme

Option 3

Fionn, he said he'd go and fetch him himself, no one else would do it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fionn	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fetch	cc
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fetch	obj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 fetch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	nsubj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fionn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	would	Fionn			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fetch	infinitive	Fionn not said here		Fionn	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary himself=Theme
4	do	would	no one	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Cona'n, who went off to find him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cona'n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	Cona'n						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Cona'n not said here	Cona'n					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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