Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tr…

did Naois's brothers die at the same time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: die

This is test 13 · ★ 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 brothers	aux
2	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brothers	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Naois	case
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Naois's brothers				time		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, Arden first, then Allen, then Naois last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 Arden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Arden	Arden	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Arden	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Allen	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 Allen	advmod
7	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Arden	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Naois	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 Naois	advmod
10	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Arden	conj
11	last	last	ADV	_	3 Arden	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, Arden and Allen died together in the sea, then Naois followed them both at once, proper sad

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 Arden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Arden	punct
3	Arden	Arden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Allen	cc
5	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Arden	conj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 followed	advmod
13	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 followed	nsubj
14	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 followed	obj
16	both	both	ADV	_	14 followed	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 followed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sad	punct
20	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sad	amod
21	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 died	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Arden and Allen					in the sea; together property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sea=Attribute
2	follow	past	Naois	Arden			then	both property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, all three at the same moment, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 three	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 three	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 three	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moment	amod
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 three	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sadly	punct
10	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	4 three	advmod

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

Option 4

Nah, Naois died first, then Arden on his shoulder, then Allen last of all after the druid

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 died	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Arden	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 Arden	advmod
8	Arden	Arden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shoulder	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulder	nmod:poss
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Arden	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Allen	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Allen	advmod
14	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Arden	conj
15	last	last	ADV	_	20 druid	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 druid	case
17	all	all	ADV	_	20 druid	advmod
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 druid	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 druid	det
20	druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Naois	Arden on Naois's shoulder and Allen				of the druid; first property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of druid=Causer

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