Test 11 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…
Was it a proper gang of heroes sitting there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proper gang, heroes · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: it
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Was | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gang | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gang | amod |
| 5 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heroes | case |
| 7 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gang | nmod |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 heroes | acl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sitting | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Was | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a proper gang of heroes | it | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | heroes not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
The nobles and champions of the Fianna, all sworn to Conn's service
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobles | det |
| 2 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 champions | cc |
| 4 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nobles | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Fianna | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fianna | det |
| 7 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 champions | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sworn | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sworn | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nobles | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 service | mark |
| 12 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 service | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Conn | case |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sworn | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | participle · passive | the nobles and champions of the Fianna not said here | all | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | service | Conn | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The nobles and champions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobles | det |
| 2 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 champions | cc |
| 4 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nobles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The lords and warriors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lords | det |
| 2 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 warriors | cc |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lords | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The kings, the bards, the druids and the champions of all the provinces
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kings | det |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bards | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bards | det |
| 5 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kings | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 druids | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 druids | det |
| 8 | druids | druid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kings | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 champions | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 champions | det |
| 11 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kings | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 provinces | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 provinces | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 provinces | det |
| 15 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 champions | 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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