Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

hold up, why did she chase after Naois like that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: hold up, chase

This is test 3 · ★ 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	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chase	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chase	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chase	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chase	nsubj
7	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 hold	conj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 Naois	case
9	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chase	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 chase	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	chase	past · do-support	she				after Naois	like that	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after naois=Theme

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

Because she was in love with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 love	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 love	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 love	case
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			love		with him = he	tree rules

Option 2

She just really liked his looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 looks	nmod:poss
6	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	She	his looks					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme

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

She fell for him straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	obl
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She					for him = he; away property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme

Option 4

Cos he was fit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 fit	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fit	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fit	cop
4	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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