Test 4 · ★ · Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a stra…

Tell me, did Cael come by boat or did he fly in, sure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Cael · What happens: tell, come, fly in · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 boat	case
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 fly	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fly	nsubj
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 fly	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past · do-support	Cael		by boat	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by boat=Location
3	fly in	past · do-support	Cael			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

By boat, a little curragh, no sails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 boat	case
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 curragh	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 curragh	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 curragh	amod
6	curragh	curragh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sails	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 sails	det
9	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boat	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By boat, a roomy ship with loads of sail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 boat	case
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ship	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
5	roomy	roomy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ship	compound
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boat	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 loads	case
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ship	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sail	case
10	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loads	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

On foot, sure, over the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 foot	case
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sure	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 foot	punct
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hill	punct
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sure	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

By boat, a massive ship with sails and oars and loads of crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 boat	case
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ship	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ship	amod
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boat	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 sails	case
8	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ship	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 oars	cc
10	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sails	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 loads	cc
12	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sails	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 crew	case
14	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loads	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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