Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…
Ok, what did Tuan see in the pool?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tuan · What happens: see · To what, where: pool
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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 | Ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 6 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ok | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 see | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pool | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pool | det |
| 9 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Tuan | the pool | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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
his pale, drawn face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 face | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pale | punct |
| 4 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 face | amod |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
his grey and tired look
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 look | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tired | cc |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grey | conj |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his wild, withered, weathered old face staring back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 face | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 withered | punct |
| 4 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 face | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 weathered | punct |
| 6 | weathered | weather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 face | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 face | amod |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 face | acl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 staring | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | weather | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stare back | gerund | his wild withered weathered old face not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his manky, wrinkled self
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 self | nmod:poss |
| 2 | manky | manky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 self | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 manky | punct |
| 4 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 self | amod |
| 5 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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