Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…
Bro, how did the sickness hit Partholon's lot?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, hit · To what, where: sickness, lot
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bro | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sickness | det |
| 6 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Partholon | Partholon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Partholon | case |
| 10 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the sickness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hit | past | Bro | Partholon's lot | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lot=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer
out of nowhere, one night to morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 nowhere | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 out | fixed |
| 3 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nowhere | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 night | nummod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nowhere | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 morning | mark |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nowhere | advcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a fever over a few weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fever | det |
| 2 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 weeks | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weeks | amod |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fever | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
from a plague in spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 plague | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plague | det |
| 3 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spring | case |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plague | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
slowly, bit by bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 bit | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 slowly | punct |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 bit | case |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | nmod |
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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