Test 10 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of th…

Why were the Fianna crying, like, when the Carl came back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fianna, Carl · What happens: cry, come back

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1059 «Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of the Iron is beaten and the Carl is revealed as a god» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 crying	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fianna	det
4	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crying	nsubj
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 came	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Carl	det
11	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the Fianna						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come back	past	the Carl						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

They were chuffed to see him alive and well, dead happy, and they all hugged him and cried loads, sound

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chuffed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	aux:pass
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chuffed	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 happy	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 happy	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 happy	amod
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 alive	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hugged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hugged	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hugged	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 hugged	advmod
17	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hugged	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hugged	conj
21	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cried	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sound	punct
23	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuffed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		They		tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		him = he	alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	hug	past	they	him = he		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	they not said here	loads		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were chuffed to see him alive, dead happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chuffed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	aux:pass
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chuffed	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 alive	conj
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 alive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		They					tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		him = he				alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

They were scared the Carl was a ghost, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ghost	det
5	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ghost	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ghost	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ghost	det
8	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sound	punct
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ghost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					scared property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Carl	the ghost and sound					tree rules

Option 4

They were crying with joy because they'd thought he was dead and gone to Faery, and now he was back and dead happy, sound

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crying	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	aux
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 joy	case
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crying	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj:pass
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	aux
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crying	advcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Faery	case
16	Faery	faery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 back	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 back	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 back	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 back	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 back	cop
22	back	back	ADV	_	9 thought	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 happy	cc
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 happy	amod
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 back	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sound	punct
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	They	sound			with joy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme
2	think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		they				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	he				dead property	tree rules
4	go	participle			Faery			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to faery=Initial_Location
5	is	past	he			now	back property	tree rules
6	be		he not said here					tree rules

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