Test 10 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

Where's the hall all gleaming with bronze, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hall, all · What happens: be, gleam

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1043 «Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defend Tara against Aillen» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 gleaming	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 gleaming	nsubj
6	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 bronze	case
8	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gleaming	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	6 gleaming	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gleaming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hall					where property	tree rules
2	gleam	gerund	all					with bronze	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with bronze=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

In the fort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

In the cold of the Boyne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cold	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cold	det
3	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Boyne	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boyne	det
6	Boyne	Boyne	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cold	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

In Tara's banqueting hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 hall	case
2	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hall	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Tara	case
4	banqueting	banquet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hall	amod
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banquet	gerund							vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

At the gate of Emain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Emain	case
5	Emain	Emain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gate	nmod

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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