Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

Right, what happens next, do they all get down?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: happen, get down

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1069 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog» 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 happens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
5	next	next	ADV	_	4 happens	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get down	present · do-support	they					down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

Mananna'n says it is safe now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mananna'n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 safe	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 safe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mananna'n						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it				now	safe property	tree rules

Option 2

They can come down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	can	They					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Mananna'n says they can come down, but the king must stay up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mananna'n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stay	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stay	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	aux
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 stay	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mananna'n		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come down	can	they	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay up	must	the king		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mananna'n says they can come down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mananna'n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mananna'n						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come down	can	they					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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