Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

did Naois hear her shouting or was it a dream?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Naois, shouting · What happens: hear, be, shout · To what, where: shouting, dream

This is test 7 · ★ 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 hear	aux
2	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shouting	nmod:poss
5	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 dream	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dream	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dream	nsubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dream	det
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	Naois	Naois's shouting	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shouting=Stimulus
2	is a	past	shouting	a dream	tree rules
3	shout		Naois		nom shouting «communication intransitive»: poss=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

It was a shout, so he came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shout	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shout	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shout	det
4	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shout	parataxis
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a shout					tree rules
2	come back	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He heard her cry from the hillock and turned back at once, though his brothers begged him to ride on

The tree, 20 words

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cry	nmod:poss
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hillock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hillock	det
7	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 begged	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ride	mark
20	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	advcl
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 ride	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	He	her cry		the hillock	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cry=Topic from hillock=Source
2	turn back	past	He not said here				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past	his brothers		him = he		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	ride on	to-infinitive	his brothers not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	cry		her = she				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He heard her cry out from the hillock and came back to see what was wrong with her

The tree, 18 words

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 cry	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 hillock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hillock	det
8	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 wrong	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 see	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	He	her = she			tree rules
2	cry out speech: express	infinitive	her = she not said here		the hillock		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come back	past	He not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	He not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past				with her = she; wrong property	tree rules

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

He heard her cry and turned back

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cry	nmod:poss
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turned	cc
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past	He	her cry	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
2	turn back	past	He not said here		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cry		her = she		nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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