Test 5 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, the tale of Conn and Segda, part 32…

Did Segda just agree to go or did his mam make him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: agree, go, do, make · To what, where: Segda, mam

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1064 «Gods and Fighting Men, the tale of Conn and Segda, part 32: Conn lands on a magic island, asks for the queen's son, and the boy is condemned to die» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Segda	aux
2	Segda	Segda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 agree	obl
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 agree	advmod
4	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 agree	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mam	nmod:poss
10	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Segda	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	Segda's mam	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mam=Eventuality
4	make	infinitive	Segda	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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 chose to go himself, saying it was to do good for the people, not his mam

The tree, 17 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 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chose	xcomp
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 go	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 chose	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	ccomp
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 do	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mam	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 mam	advmod
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mam	nmod:poss
19	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	past	He	his mam		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	He not said here	himself = he		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	He not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	it		for the people; do property	tree rules

Option 2

He chose to go on his own, saying he would do good for the whole island and Ireland

The tree, 18 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 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chose	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 chose	advcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	ccomp
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 do	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 island	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 island	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 island	amod
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Ireland	cc
19	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 island	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past	He				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	He not said here		his own		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location
3	say speech: assert	gerund	He not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	would	he	good		for the whole island and Ireland	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He chose to go, saying it was to do good

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 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chose	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 chose	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	ccomp
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	choose	past	He		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	He not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	it	do property	tree rules

Option 4

His mam made him go, he didn't want to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mam	nmod:poss
2	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 want	advmod
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	10 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	His mam	him = he	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not want	past · do-support	mam		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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