Test 11 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Did Goll and Fionn stay mates after that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Goll · What happens: stay · To what, where: mates

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1061 «Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats the hags and frees the Fianna» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Goll	aux
2	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stay	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Fionn	cc
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Goll	conj
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 stay	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Goll and Fionn	mates			after that		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mate=Location

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

Yeah, they stayed friends until the end, though Goll's pride caused some trouble later on

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obj
6	until	until	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caused	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 caused	mark
11	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 pride	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Goll	case
13	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caused	nsubj
14	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	parataxis
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 trouble	det
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caused	obj
17	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 caused	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	14 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they	friends	until the end		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location
2	cause	past	Goll's pride	some trouble		late property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient
3	pride		Goll				nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not really, they fell out later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fell	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 fell	compound:prt
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 fell	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall out	past	they					late property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they fought later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 fought	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	they					late property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Not really, they fought later.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 fought	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fought	nsubj
5	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 fought	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	they					late property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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