Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

did Deirdre sing a song at them, or was it a poem?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Deirdre, song · What happens: sing, be · To what, where: song, poem

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1995 «Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, Naois takes her to Scotland, and Connachar invites them back to a feast» 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 sing	aux
2	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 poem	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 poem	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 poem	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 poem	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 poem	det
13	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · do-support	Deirdre	a song				at them = they	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	is a	past	song	a poem					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

Yeah, a sad tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tune	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tune	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tune	amod
5	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, she chanted about birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chanted	nsubj
4	chanted	chant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 birds	case
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	past	she					about birds	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bird=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she sang about doves and hawks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 doves	case
6	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sang	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hawks	cc
8	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	she					about doves and hawks	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about dove=Location

Option 4

Yeah, she made up a verse on swans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 verse	det
7	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 swans	case
9	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	she	a verse		swans			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme verse=Pivot

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