Test 6 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Mint, why did Goll say he had to fight her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Goll · What happens: say, have, fight · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mint	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fight	mark
10	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fight	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Goll		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Goll		tree rules
3	fight	to-infinitive	Goll not said here	her = she	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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

He was bored and fancied it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fancied	cc
5	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules
2	fancy	past	He not said here	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He killed her sisters, so the feud is on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nmod:poss
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 is	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feud	det
8	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	He	her sisters				on feud	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
2	be	present	the feud						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He killed her sisters, so the feud is on him, and he reckons it's his job to finish it properly

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nmod:poss
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 him	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 him	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feud	det
8	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 him	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 him	cop
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reckons	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 reckons	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reckons	nsubj
15	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 job	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 job	cop
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 job	nmod:poss
19	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reckons	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 finish	mark
21	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 job	acl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 finish	obj
23	properly	properly	ADV	_	21 finish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	past	He	her sisters		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
2	is	present	the feud		on him = he	tree rules
3	reckon	present	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	feud	his job		tree rules
5	finish	to-infinitive	he not said here	job	properly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He had to fight her because Fionn ordered him, and he wanted to win the daughter's hand as well

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fight	mark
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fight	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 ordered	mark
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fight	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ordered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 win	mark
15	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 daughter	det
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hand	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 daughter	case
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 win	obj
20	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	15 win	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	past	He			tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	order	past	Fionn		him = he	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	want	past	Fionn			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here	the daughter's hand		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality

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