Test 3 · ★ · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…
Gonna be dead honest, whose son did the king say Fionn really was?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gonna, son, king, Fionn · What happens: be, do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Gonna | Gonna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 honest | nsubj |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 honest | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 honest | amod |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 honest | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 honest | parataxis |
| 12 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 was | advmod |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 honest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Gonna | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | son | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past | Fionn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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
Uall mac Balscne's, from the Luigne of Tara
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uall | Uall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Balscne | compound |
| 2 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Balscne | compound |
| 3 | Balscne | Balscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Balscne | case |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Luigne | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Luigne | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Luigne | det |
| 8 | Luigne | Luigne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Balscne | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tara | case |
| 10 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Luigne | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
that Uall mac Balscne bloke from the Luigne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 bloke | mark |
| 2 | Uall | Uall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mac | compound |
| 3 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Balscne | compound |
| 4 | Balscne | Balscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bloke | compound |
| 5 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Luigne | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Luigne | det |
| 8 | Luigne | Luigne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bloke | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Uall mac Balscne's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uall | Uall | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uall | flat |
| 3 | Balscne | Balscne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uall | flat |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Balscne | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Dathi mac Fergus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dathi | Dathi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dathi | flat |
| 3 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dathi | flat |
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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