Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…
What did the servants call Finnian, like?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servants · What happens: do, call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 call | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 call | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | call | present | the servants | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
The new druid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 druid | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 druid | amod |
| 3 | druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The new druid of the lake and the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 druid | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 druid | amod |
| 3 | druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 druid | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hills | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 druid | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The stranger who fasted at the lord's door, the new druid, like
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fasted | nsubj |
| 4 | fasted | fast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stranger | acl:relcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lord | det |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 lord | case |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fasted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 druid | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 druid | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 druid | amod |
| 13 | druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stranger | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stranger | punct |
| 15 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 2 stranger | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fast | past | the stranger and the new druid | the lord's door | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The strange priest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 priest | amod |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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