Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…

Ngl, what did Kynon reckon about big deeds?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: reckon

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 deeds	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deeds	amod
9	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reckon	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Ngl					about big deeds	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

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 right answer

None was too mighty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 mighty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mighty	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 mighty	advmod
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	None					mighty property	tree rules

Option 2

Each was too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hard	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Each					hard property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He reckoned no deed was too mighty for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 deed	det
4	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mighty	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mighty	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 mighty	advmod
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckoned	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mighty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	no deed					for him = he; mighty property	tree rules

Option 4

Deeds were way too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 way	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 way	cop
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Deeds	way					tree rules

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