Test 10 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

Did Fionn promise to protect something big, like, Ireland's honour?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fionn, Ireland · What happens: promise, protect, honour · To what, where: something

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promise	aux
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promise	nsubj
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 protect	mark
5	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	xcomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 protect	obj
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 honour	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	13 honour	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 honour	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Ireland	case
13	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protect	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Fionn			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	protect not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here	something	Ireland's honour obl	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Beneficiary
3	honour		Ireland			nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

His own honour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 honour	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 honour	amod
3	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honour		His = he						nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

The honour of Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honour	det
2	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 honour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honour			Ireland					nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The lands of Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lands	det
2	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lands	nmod

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

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