Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

bro, where did they chill after they ran off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: chill, run off

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chill	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 chill	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chill	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chill	nsubj
6	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bro	conj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 ran	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chill	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · do-support	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	run off	past	they						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

A tower by Loch-Ness in Scotland, where they lived with Deirdre for many years in peace

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 Ness	case
4	Loch	Loch	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ness	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Loch	punct
6	Ness	ness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tower	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Scotland	case
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ness	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lived	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Deirdre	case
14	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 years	amod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 peace	case
19	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a tower by Loch Ness in Scotland			peace	year	with Deirdre	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with deirdre=Location

Option 2

A tower by Loch-Ness in Scotland, where they lived quietly for years with Deirdre and their families

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 Ness	case
4	Loch	Loch	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ness	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Loch	punct
6	Ness	ness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tower	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Scotland	case
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ness	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lived	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 lived	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 Deirdre	case
17	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 years	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 families	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 families	nmod:poss
20	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Deirdre	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a tower by Loch Ness in Scotland				year	quietly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A tower by Loch-Ness in Scotland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 Ness	case
4	Loch	Loch	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ness	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Loch	punct
6	Ness	ness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tower	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Scotland	case
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ness	nmod

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

Option 4

A castle by a lake up north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 castle	nmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	2 castle	compound
7	north	north	ADV	_	6 up	advmod

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

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