Test 9 · ★ · Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a stra…

Sure, did Cael say he would leave if he got beaten, or stay forever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cael · What happens: say, leave, beat, stay · To what, where: Cael · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sure	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leave	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 beaten	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beaten	nsubj
11	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beaten	aux:pass
12	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 leave	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stay	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 stay	cc
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
16	forever	forever	ADV	_	15 stay	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Cael			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	would	Cael			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beat a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Cael		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	stay	infinitive	Cael not said here		forever property	vn exist-47.1 «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

He would stay here and fight them all

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stay	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fight	cc
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stay	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fight	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fight	infinitive	He not said here	them = they					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 2

He'd stay, sure

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 stay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He would go home and trouble them no more

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 trouble	cc
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trouble	obj
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	He					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He'd stay forever

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 stay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He					forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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