Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

wagwan, what pulled the ale barrel, like oxen or horses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wagwan · What happens: pull · To what, where: ale barrel

This is test 12 · ★ 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	wagwan	wagwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wagwan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barrel	det
6	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barrel	compound
7	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 oxen	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 oxen	case
10	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulled	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 horses	cc
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 oxen	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pulled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	wagwan	the ale barrel				like oxen or horses	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=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

a hundred horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a hundred oxen and their herdsmen together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 oxen	nummod
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 herdsmen	cc
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 herdsmen	nmod:poss
6	herdsmen	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 oxen	conj
7	together	together	ADV	_	3 oxen	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a score of cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 score	det
2	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cows	case
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 score	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	score			cows					nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a hundred oxen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 oxen	nummod
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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