Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

Ngl, what spooked Tuan when he was on his own?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: spook, be · To what, where: Tuan

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spooked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spooked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 spooked	nsubj
4	spooked	spook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spooked	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 own	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 own	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 own	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spooked	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spooked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spook	past	Ngl	Tuan					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tuan=Experiencer
2	is	past	Ngl					own property	tree rules

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

the ghosts of his dead people calling his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ghosts	det
2	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 people	nmod:poss
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ghosts	nmod
7	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 people	acl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	gerund	his dead people not said here	his name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	ghost			his dead people	nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	name		his = he		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

a falling branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 branch	det
2	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 branch	amod
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a loud crack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crack	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crack	amod
3	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his own shadow

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	3 shadow	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shadow	amod
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shadow		his = he						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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