Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…
Right, who carried poor Finnian into the house?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: carry · To what, where: poor Finnian, house
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 carried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Finnian | amod |
| 6 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | poor Finnian | the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finnian=Theme |
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
Four of his men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 men | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 men | nmod:poss |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Four | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two of the servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 servants | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Two | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The lord and two of his servants together, carefully
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 together | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 two | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 lord | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lord | nmod |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carefully | punct |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 together | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The old steward
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steward | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steward | amod |
| 3 | steward | steward | 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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