Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…
Yo, who was the holy man just chatting away?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: holy man · What happens: be, chat away · To what, where: holy man
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 chatting | advmod |
| 9 | chatting | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 man | acl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 chatting | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the holy man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chat away speech: other | gerund | the holy man not said here | away property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «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
Tuan, the old hermit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hermit | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hermit | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hermit | amod |
| 5 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tuan | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nemed, the sea captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemed | Nemed | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 captain | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captain | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 captain | compound |
| 5 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nemed | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Finnian, the saint dude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dude | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dude | det |
| 4 | saint | saint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dude | amod |
| 5 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finnian | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Tuan, the stag man who was just chatting after the storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tuan | appos |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 chatting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chatting | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 chatting | advmod |
| 9 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 storm | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 storm | det |
| 12 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chatting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | past · progressive | the stag man | after the storm | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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