Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tr…

did Ferchar's sons take the king's bridge offer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sons, king · What happens: take, offer · To what, where: bridge offer

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1996 «Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tricks fail and the three brothers die» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sons	aux
2	Ferchar	Ferchar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ferchar	case
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offer	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offer	compound
10	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Ferchar's sons	the king's bridge offer					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
2	offer		the king						nom offer «communication transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they refused and went to Erin, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Erin	case
8	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refused	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	they					mate vocative	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	they not said here			Erin			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to erin=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yeah, they accepted it and went home to their dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 accepted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 accepted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accepted	nsubj
4	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accepted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accepted	conj
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 dad	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dad	nmod:poss
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	they	it					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go	past	they not said here					to their dad; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dad=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they said no way and went back home to their dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 dad	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dad	nmod:poss
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	go back	past	they not said here					to their dad result; home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dad=Result

Option 4

Yeah, they took it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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