Test 7 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Nah bro, did Oisin fight her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oisin · What happens: fight · To what, where: her

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 bro	discourse
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fight	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bro	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fight	aux
5	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fight	nsubj
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fight	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · do-support	Oisin	her = she				bro vocative	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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he fought her and lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lost	cc
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he	her = she					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	lose	past	he not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he said he was too weak, and then he hid behind his dad while Goll took the fight

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 weak	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weak	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 weak	advmod
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 hid	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hid	nsubj
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 dad	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dad	nmod:poss
16	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obl
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 took	mark
18	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hid	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fight	det
21	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he			weak property	tree rules
3	hide	past	he		then	behind his dad	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind dad=Location
4	take	past	Goll	the fight			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, he said he felt too weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 weak	advmod
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	feel	past	he					weak property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, he fought her well

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fought	advmod

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

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