Test 3 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's jour…
Wait, who's the fisherman who grabbed him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fisherman · What happens: wait, be, grab · To what, where: fisherman, him
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1036 «Gods and Fighting Men, Tuan mac Cairill, the salmon's journey and rebirth» 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 fisherman | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 fisherman | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fisherman | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fisherman | det |
| 6 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 grabbed | nsubj |
| 8 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grabbed | obj |
| 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 | is a | present | the fisherman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grab | past | the fisherman | him = he | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice
The fisherman of Cairill, the Ulster king, who was out on the water that day
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cairill | case |
| 4 | Cairill | Cairill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fisherman | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fisherman | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 water | cop |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 was | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fisherman of Cairill | the water | day | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The fisherman of Cairill, the Ulster king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cairill | case |
| 4 | Cairill | Cairill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fisherman | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fisherman | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The fisherman from the Ulster coast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 coast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coast | det |
| 5 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coast | compound |
| 6 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fisherman | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Some random guy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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