Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

did the teacher say the fish was for Fionn or for himself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, fish · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fionn	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Fionn	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Fionn	cop
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Fionn	case
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 himself	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 Fionn	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	fish					for the Fionn	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 · ← Mova's choice

for his pupil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 pupil	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pupil	nmod:poss
3	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

for the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 king	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

for Fionn, the lad he'd taught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 Fionn	case
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fionn	appos
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taught	nsubj:pass
7	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taught	aux
8	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lad	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	the lad not said here	Fionn					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

for Fionn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 Fionn	case
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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