Test 1 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

Yer man Finnian, what was he doing sitting outside the door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: door

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1033 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1: Finnian forces his way into a pagan lord's house and wins him over» 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	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	nsubj
3	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 man	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 doing	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doing	nsubj
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 doing	xcomp
10	outside	outside	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Yer's man						tree rules
2	sit	gerund	Yer's man not said here			the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=Location

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

Sitting quiet and fasting, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 like	advcl
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sitting	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fasting	cc
4	fasting	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Sitting	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sitting	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						quiet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fast	gerund							tree rules

Option 2

Sitting there in a deep trance, staring down at the ground for hours on end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sitting	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 trance	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trance	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trance	amod
6	trance	trance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 staring	punct
8	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	advcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 staring	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staring	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 hours	case
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 staring	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 end	case
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				a deep trance; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=Location
2	stare down	gerund					on end; hour	at the ground; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme

Option 3

Meditating on the stones as the lord's men peered through the spy-holes above

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meditating	meditate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 stones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stones	det
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Meditating	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 peered	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lord	det
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 men	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lord	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 peered	nsubj
10	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Meditating	advcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	15 holes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 holes	det
13	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 holes	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 spy	punct
15	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 peered	obl
16	above	above	ADV	_	10 peered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meditate	gerund						on the stones	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on stone=Topic
2	peer	past	the lord's men					through the spy holes; above property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Staring at the ground in a trance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Staring	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 trance	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trance	det
7	trance	trance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	gerund						in a trance; at the ground	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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