Test 9 · ★ · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What's the Salmon of Knowledge supposed to be, sound?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, suppose · To what, where: Salmon

This is test 9 · ★ 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 Salmon	det
4	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 What	acl:relcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Knowledge	case
6	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Salmon	nmod
7	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Salmon	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	11 sound	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sound	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sound	punct
11	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 supposed	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present			tree rules
2	suppose	participle	the Salmon of Knowledge not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive		sound 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

a trout that sings in the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trout	det
2	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sings	nsubj
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 trout	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	a trout			the pool			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a fish that brings all knowledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fish	acl:relcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 knowledge	det
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	a fish	all knowledge					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a fish that brings all knowledge to whoever eats it from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fish	acl:relcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 knowledge	det
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 whoever	case
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brings	obl
9	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eats	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	a fish	all knowledge		whoever			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme to whoever=Destination
2	eat	present	a fish	knowledge		the river			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

a fish that grants great wisdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 grants	nsubj
4	grants	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fish	acl:relcl
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wisdom	amod
6	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	present	a fish	great wisdom					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme

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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