Test 8 · ★ · Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a stra…

Me ma would never say that to a champ, so how come Cona'n said it's no boast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Me ma, Cona'n, ma · What happens: not say, come, say, be · To what, where: that, boast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Me	me	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ma	amod
2	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 say	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 champ	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 champ	det
9	champ	champ	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
14	Cona'n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 boast	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 boast	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 boast	det
19	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	Me ma	that	to a champ	tree rules
2	come	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Cona'n			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	ma	no boast		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 · ← Mova's choice

He said it's no boast at all, just the plain truth, and he means every word of it

The tree, 19 words

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 boast	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boast	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 boast	det
6	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 boast	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 truth	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 truth	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
12	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 truth	amod
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boast	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 word	det
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	it	no boast and the plain truth	all	tree rules
3	mean	present	he	every word of word		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	word			word		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

He said it was boasting, but fair enough

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boasting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boasting	aux
5	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fair	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 fair	cc
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 fair	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	boast speech: other	past · progressive	it						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He said it was a bit of a boast

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 boast	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boast	det
9	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a bit				of a boast	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He said it's no boast at all, just the truth

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 boast	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boast	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 boast	det
6	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 boast	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 truth	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 truth	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	no boast and the truth		all			tree rules

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