Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

What did Mongan say about them drowning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mongan, them · What happens: say, drown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 drowning	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drowning	nsubj
7	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 say	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Mongan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	drown	gerund	them = they						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Sending them a mile down the stream, the way the flood was going anyway

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 way	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sending	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mile	det
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sending	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flood	det
12	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 way	acl:relcl
15	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		them = they				down the stream	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	the flood	the way not said here				anyway property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sending them a mile down the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sending	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mile	det
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		them = they				down the stream	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme

Option 3

Sending them a mile down the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sending	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mile	det
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		them = they				down the road	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme

Option 4

Sending them a mile down the stream and then the lads could drown in peace

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 drown	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sending	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mile	det
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lads	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lads	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lads	det
11	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stream	conj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drown	aux
13	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 peace	case
15	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		them = they				down the stream and the lads	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme
2	drown	could	Sending			peace			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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