Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…
Wait, what had he forgotten about being human?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, forget, be
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgotten | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 forgotten | obj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forgotten | nsubj |
| 6 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Wait | conj |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 human | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 human | cop |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forgotten | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | he | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | he not said here | human 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 right answer
all that a man had known
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 man | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect · passive | all man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
Option 2
every prayer and hymn his mother taught him as a boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 prayer | det |
| 2 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hymn | cc |
| 4 | hymn | hymn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 prayer | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hymn | obj |
| 7 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taught | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hymn | infinitive | every prayer not said here | prayer's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | every prayer | him = he | as a boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 3
the names of his kin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 names | det |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kin | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 names | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | his kin | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
how to sail a ship across the great and dangerous sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 sail | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 sail | mark |
| 3 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sea | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dangerous | cc |
| 10 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 great | conj |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | to-infinitive | a ship | the great sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme across sea=Trajectory |
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