Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

So who's the proper villain of this bit, like the one who started it all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, start · To what, where: proper villain, bit

This is test 2 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 villain	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 villain	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 villain	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 villain	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 villain	amod
6	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bit	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 villain	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 villain	appos
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 started	nsubj
15	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 started	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 it	det
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 villain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the proper villain				of this bit	tree rules
2	start	past	the one	bit					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

Big Eolgarg, the bloke with the sheep and the tent, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Eolgarg	amod
2	Eolgarg	Eolgarg	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bloke	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Eolgarg	appos
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sheep	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bloke	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tent	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tent	det
11	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sheep	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reckon	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 reckon	nsubj
14	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Eolgarg	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	I	Big Eolgarg not said here					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent eolgarg=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Black Hag, with her cow moaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hag	det
2	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hag	compound
3	Hag	Hag	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cow	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cow	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cow	nmod:poss
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Hag	appos
8	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cow	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	gerund	Hag's cow not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The king, for starting the whole row

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 starting	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 starting	mark
5	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 king	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 row	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 row	amod
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund	the king not said here	the whole row					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Eventuality

Option 4

The sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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