Test 3 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Were the three hags proper dead scary, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: three hags · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scary	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hags	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hags	nummod
4	hags	hag	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scary	nsubj
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scary	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scary	amod
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	7 scary	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 scary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the three hags					scary property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Each one matched a hundred men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matched	nsubj
3	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	past	each one	hundred men					vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 2

Each one matched a hundred men, and their eyes glowed red in the dark of the cave

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matched	nsubj
3	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dark	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dark	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dark	nsubj
11	glowed	glow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 dark	amod
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dark	amod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 dark	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dark	det
15	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matched	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 cave	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cave	det
18	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	past	each one	a hundred men		the glowed red dark of the cave			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	glow	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Each one matched a hundred men in strength, and they hissed and screamed like demons when they fought

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matched	nsubj
3	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matched	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 strength	case
8	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hissed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hissed	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hissed	nsubj
12	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 matched	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 screamed	cc
14	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hissed	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 demons	case
16	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 screamed	obl
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 fought	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fought	nsubj
19	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hissed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	match	past	each one	hundred men	strength		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	hiss	past	men = man				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scream speech: express	past	men = man not said here			like demons	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fight	past	men = man				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Each one fought like ten men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 one	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	participle		each one not said here				like ten men	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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