Test 4 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Ayy, what did the third hag promise Goll so he'd let her go?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayy, Goll · What happens: do, let, go · To what, where: third hag promise, Goll

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 promise	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 promise	amod
7	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	compound
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 promise	appos
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 let	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 let	aux
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	acl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ayy	the third hag promise	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality
2	let	would	Ayy	Goll	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Goll not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

To lift the spell off the Fianna

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lift	mark
2	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spell	det
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lift	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 Fianna	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fianna	det
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	to-infinitive		the spell				off the Fianna	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme off fianna=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To release his men from spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 release	mark
2	release	release	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 men	nmod:poss
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 release	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 spell	case
6	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 release	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	to-infinitive		his men		spell			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer man=Source

Option 3

To spare her and free them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 spare	mark
2	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spare	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 free	cc
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spare	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 free	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive		her = she				free property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Asset

Option 4

To free them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 free	mark
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 free	obj

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

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