Test 5 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Gutted, was it actually Goll who killed the fourth hag?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, Goll · What happens: gut, be, kill · To what, where: Goll, fourth hag

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Goll	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Goll	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Goll	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 Goll	advmod
6	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gutted	obl:agent
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 killed	nsubj
8	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Goll	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hag	det
10	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 hag	amod
11	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killed	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gut	participle				vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	Goll	actually property	tree rules
3	kill	past	Goll	the fourth hag		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he took the fight himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	the fight				himself = he obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he left it to the hounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hounds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hounds	det
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	it	the hounds				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to hound=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, with his mates' help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 help	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mates	nmod:poss
5	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 mates	case
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help		his mates						nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yeah, he took the fight himself after Oisin refused and the rest of the Fianna stood back

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 took	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 refused	mark
9	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 refused	nsubj
10	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Fianna	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fianna	det
16	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rest	nmod
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	the fight	himself = he obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme
2	refuse	past	Oisin			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	stand back	past	the rest of the Fianna			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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