Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tr…

was Connachar actually sorry about the druid's schooling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Connachar, druid · What happens: be, school

This is test 9 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	cop
2	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sorry	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 sorry	advmod
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 schooling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 druid	det
7	druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 schooling	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 druid	case
9	schooling	schooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorry	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Connachar					about the druid's schooling; actually, sorry property	tree rules
2	school		the druid						nom schooling «act 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

Yeah, he wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he was sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sorry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	cop
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sorry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he said it was no loss at all, cold blooded

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loss	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 loss	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 loss	det
8	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 loss	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blooded	punct
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blooded	amod
13	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 loss	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	no loss		all			tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he cried about it, said it was a loss, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loss	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 loss	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 loss	det
12	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loss	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he		about it	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	a loss	mate vocative	tree rules

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