Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

Wait, why did Fiachna have to go to war in the first place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Fiachna · What happens: wait, have, go · To what, where: first place

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 war	case
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past · do-support	Fiachna			tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	Fiachna not said here	the first place	to war	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location

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

Her judgement made him go to war on Lochlann anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 judgement	nmod:poss
2	judgement	judgement	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	to	to	ADP	_	7 war	case
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Lochlann	case
9	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Her judgement	him = he		Lochlann		anyway property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			war			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location

Option 2

She told him to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	2 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

Her ruling forced him to march

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ruling	nmod:poss
2	ruling	ruling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forced	nsubj
3	forced	force	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 forced	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 march	mark
6	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forced	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	force	past	Her ruling	him = he	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	march	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rule		Her = she		nom ruling «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her judgement made him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 judgement	nmod:poss
2	judgement	judgement	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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Her judgement	him = he					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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