Test 9 · ★ · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

How did the aunts work out the future, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunts · What happens: work out · To what, where: future

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 work	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 aunts	det
4	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 work	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 future	det
8	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 work	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work out	past · do-support	the aunts	the future					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Topic

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

Stars, rain, sheep, fish and skulls over their heads at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rain	punct
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stars	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sheep	punct
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stars	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stars	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 skulls	cc
9	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stars	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 heads	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stars	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stars	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Clouds, shadows, birds, flies and bones over their shoulders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shadows	punct
3	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 birds	punct
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flies	punct
7	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bones	cc
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 shoulders	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoulders	nmod:poss
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Clouds, shadows, birds, flies, bones and dead sticks thrown over their shoulders in the dark house

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shadows	punct
3	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 birds	punct
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flies	punct
7	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bones	punct
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sticks	cc
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sticks	amod
12	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clouds	conj
13	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Clouds	acl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 shoulders	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shoulders	nmod:poss
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thrown	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 house	amod
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle		Clouds and shadows and birds and flies and bones and dead sticks not said here		sticks's shoulders		in the dark house	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination

Option 4

Smoke, water, rivers, leaves and stones on their backs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 water	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smoke	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rivers	punct
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smoke	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaves	punct
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smoke	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stones	cc
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaves	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 backs	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 backs	nmod:poss
12	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaves	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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