Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fio…
Ya know that tree bit? Why did Fionn stay so still?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ya, Fionn · What happens: know, stay
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1039 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, part 7: Fionn is spared by the robber Fiacuil and carried off to his marsh den» 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
Sentence 1: Ya know that tree bit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ya | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 bit | mark |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | compound |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Ya | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
Sentence 2: Why did Fionn stay so still?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stay | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 3 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 still | advmod |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stay | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · do-support | Fionn | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He had made a vow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vow | det |
| 5 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | He | a vow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product |
Option 2
He was ordered to stay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | aux:pass |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past · passive | He | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
His word was passed
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 | 2 word | nmod:poss |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | His word | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | word | His = he | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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