Test 1 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…
yo, who was the one who actually caught the salmon, the teacher or the lad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: one, salmon
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 one | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 caught | advmod |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 salmon | det |
| 11 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 teacher | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 teacher | det |
| 14 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 salmon | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 lad | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lad | det |
| 17 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 salmon | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | the one | the salmon and the teacher or the lad | actually property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=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 · ← Mova's choice
Deimne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deimne | Deimne | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Uail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uail | Uail | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Finegas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finegas | finega | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the teacher, not the lad, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 think | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lad | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lad | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teacher | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 teacher | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the teacher and the lad | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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