Test 8 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Did the whole world go quiet during the fight, like totally?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, go · To what, where: whole world

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 world	amod
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	during	during	ADP	_	9 fight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fight	det
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 totally	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 totally	case
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	you not said here	the whole world					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Eventuality
2	go	imperative	you not said here				during the fight	quiet, totally property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the wind kept blowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the wind						tree rules
2	blow	gerund	the wind not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the wind stopped and the clouds froze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	nsubj
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 froze	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 froze	nsubj
9	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the wind						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	freeze	past	the clouds						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nah, it was loud all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 along	advmod
7	along	along	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					along, loud property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the birds went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the birds					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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