Test 11 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

Did Mongan march the cows home to Ulster?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mongan · What happens: march · To what, where: cows home, Ulster

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for Duv Laca» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 march	aux
2	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 march	nsubj
3	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 home	det
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 home	compound
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 march	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Ulster	case
8	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 march	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 march	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past · do-support	Mongan	the cows home	Ulster				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent home=Theme to ulster=Result

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

Nah, he sold the cows at the fair in Dublin and kept the silver for himself

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cows	det
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 fair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fair	det
9	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Dublin	case
11	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fair	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 silver	det
15	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	the cows		the fair in Dublin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cow=Theme at fair=Asset
2	keep	past	he not said here	the silver				for Dublin	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, straight back home to Ulster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 back	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 back	advmod
4	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 back	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Ulster	case
7	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 back	obl

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

Option 3

Yeah, straight back home to Ulster, driving the whole herd over the hills at a gallop

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 back	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 back	advmod
4	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 back	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Ulster	case
7	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 back	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Ulster	punct
9	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Ulster	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 herd	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 herd	amod
12	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 driving	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 hills	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hills	det
15	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 driving	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 gallop	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gallop	det
18	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 driving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	gerund	Ulster not said here	the whole herd		the hills		at a gallop	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent herd=Theme over hill=Destination at gallop=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he kept them in Leinster, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Leinster	case
7	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Leinster	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	them = they		Leinster			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in leinster=Location

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