Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

Did the Chamberlain reckon it was a mad year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Chamberlain · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: mad year

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1073 «Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the priests and wins back 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	4 reckon	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chamberlain	det
3	Chamberlain	Chamberlain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 year	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 year	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the Chamberlain						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Chamberlain	a mad year					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said it was a fine growing year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 year	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 year	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
9	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	it	a fine growing year	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he said it was a poor harvest year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 year	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 year	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 year	compound
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a poor harvest year					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he said it was a fine growing year, and the king said nothing back to him at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 year	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 year	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
9	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 said	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	it	a fine growing year			tree rules
4	say back speech: assert	past	the king	nothing	him = he	all	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to he=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he said it was a bad growing year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 year	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 year	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
9	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	it	a bad growing year	tree rules

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