Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…
Like, what did he dream about?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: dream
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 dream | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 dream | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 6 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 dream | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 dream | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past · do-support | he | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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
a stag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
turning into a stag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 stag | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stag | det |
| 4 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 turning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | a stag | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stag=Trajectory |
Option 4
becoming a hunter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 becoming | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | gerund | a hunter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient hunter=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1034-pg2892-part2/t13/