Test 7 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…
What was that thing the stranger said to Fionn?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thing stranger · What happens: be · To what, where: Fionn
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1038 «Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn trains hard, learns to swim, and is left sneezing in a tree» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stranger | compound |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stranger | det |
| 6 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Fionn | case |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the thing stranger | Fionn | say 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
"Hail, young lord"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 2 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lord | amod |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hail | conj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"Well met, young master"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 met | discourse |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 master | amod |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | participle | young master | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"My soul to you, young master"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 soul | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 soul | nmod:poss |
| 3 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 soul | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soul | appos |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"Good luck to you, sir"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 luck | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 luck | amod |
| 3 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 luck | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 luck | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 luck | punct |
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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