Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

Hang on, how did nine hundred blokes get killed by sheep?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, sheep · What happens: hang on, kill · To what, where: hundred blokes

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 killed	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 killed	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	aux
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 blokes	nummod
8	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 killed	nsubj:pass
9	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	aux:pass
10	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hang	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 sheep	case
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 killed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kill	past · passive · do-support	sheep	hundred blokes					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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

The venomous sheep were let loose from the tent by Big Eolgarg's lads that morning

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux:pass
5	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	loose	loose	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 tent	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tent	det
9	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 lads	case
11	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Eolgarg	amod
12	Eolgarg	Eolgarg	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lads	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Eolgarg	case
14	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lads	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · passive	Big Eolgarg's lads that morning	the venomous sheep		the tent		loose property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

The venomous sheep were let loose from a tent by Big Eolgarg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux:pass
5	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	loose	loose	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 tent	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tent	det
9	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 Big	case
11	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 let	obl:agent
12	Eolgarg	Eolgarg	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Big	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · passive	Big	the venomous sheep		a tent		loose property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

The venomous sheep were let loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux:pass
5	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · passive		the venomous sheep				loose property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Some lad let the sheep out early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 let	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	some lad	the sheep				early, out property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

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