Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

How'd Conall's crew get to Lochlann?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crew · What happens: get · To what, where: Lochlann

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1988 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches and a sieve of water» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crew	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Conall	case
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Lochlann	case
8	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Conall's crew		Lochlann				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lochlann=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 · ← Mova's choice

A magic wind took them across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wind	compound
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	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 took	obj
6	across	across	ADV	_	4 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a magic wind	them = they				across property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

They ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They tore through ocean, no stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 ocean	case
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stopping	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 stopping	det
7	stopping	stopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ocean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	They			ocean and no stopping			tree rules

Option 4

By boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 boat	case
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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