Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…
so why did Naois bounce from Erin, is it the king?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bounce · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Naois bounce, Erin, king
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bounce | compound |
| 5 | bounce | bounce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Erin | case |
| 7 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bounce | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 king | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 king | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounce | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Naois bounce | Erin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bounce=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | bounce | the king | 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, Connachar was salty over Deirdre and sent men after him all the way out of Ulster
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 salty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 salty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 salty | cop |
| 5 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 Deirdre | case |
| 7 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 salty | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 salty | conj |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | obj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 way | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 Ulster | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ulster | case |
| 18 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Connachar | Deirdre | salty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | past | Connachar not said here | men | after Connachar | all way out Ulster obl:unmarked | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, Connachar was salty over Deirdre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 salty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 salty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 salty | cop |
| 5 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 Deirdre | case |
| 7 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 salty | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Connachar | Deirdre | salty property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, Connachar was chill about Deirdre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | cop |
| 5 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Deirdre | case |
| 7 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chill | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Connachar | about Deirdre; chill property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, Connachar was salty over Deirdre and tried to get his mates to hunt Naois down across Erin
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 salty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 salty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 salty | cop |
| 5 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 Deirdre | case |
| 7 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 salty | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 salty | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mates | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hunt | mark |
| 15 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 get | xcomp |
| 16 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hunt | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 hunt | advmod |
| 18 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 Erin | case |
| 19 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hunt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Connachar | Deirdre | salty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | past | Connachar not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Connachar not said here | Connachar's mates | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt down | to-infinitive | Connachar's mates not said here | Naois | Erin | down property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naois=Theme |
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