Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

did Ferchar's sons promise to back them up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sons · What happens: do, promise, back up · To what, where: sons

This is test 13 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ferchar	Ferchar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ferchar	case
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 promise	nsubj
5	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 back	mark
7	back	back	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 back	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 back	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present	Ferchar's sons		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	back up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ferchar's sons not said here	sons = son	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

Yeah, they swore they'd be there for them, every step of the way, even if the king turned on them

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 there	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 there	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swore	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 there	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 step	punct
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 step	det
13	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 step	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 turned	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swore	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swear	past	they	every step of the way		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	they		for them = they; there property	tree rules
3	turn a condition, not said to happen	past	the king		on them = they	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory
4	step			the way		nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Yeah, they swore they'd be there for them and would stand by them at the feast

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 there	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 there	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swore	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stand	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	aux
13	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swore	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stand	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 feast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feast	det
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	swear	past	they		for them = they	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	they		there property	tree rules
3	stand	would	they not said here	the feast	by them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location

Option 3

Yeah, they vowed to help them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 vowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 vowed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vowed	nsubj
4	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 vowed	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 help	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vow	past	they						tree rules
2	help out not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they swore they'd be there for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 there	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 there	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swore	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	they					for them = they	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	they					there property	tree rules

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