Test 13 · ★ · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What's the story saying about asking questions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: be, say, ask · To what, where: questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1041 «Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge, part 9: Fionn beats the king at chess, is unmasked, and goes to learn from Finegas» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 story	acl
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 saying	advcl
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asking	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the story		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the story not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	the story not said here	questions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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

we get tired of asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 asking	mark
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	we					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	we not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

we get wise even unanswered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 unanswered	advmod
5	unanswered	unanswered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	we					unanswered, wise property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

it's pointless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pointless	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pointless	cop
3	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						pointless property	tree rules

Option 4

we learn a bit from each try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learn	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 try	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 try	det
7	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	we	a bit		each try			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Topic from try=Source

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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