Test 7 · ★ · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

What's the wee shallow dish Fionn stares into?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wee shallow dish, Fionn · What happens: be, stare · To what, where: wee shallow dish

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dish	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dish	amod
5	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dish	amod
6	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stares	nsubj
8	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dish	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	8 stares	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wee shallow dish						tree rules
2	stare	present	Fionn	the wee shallow dish not said here					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

A shallow golden dish filled with clear water from the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dish	det
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dish	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dish	amod
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dish	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filled	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	participle		a shallow golden dish not said here		the well		with clear water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A silver bowl of milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowl	compound
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 milk	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowl	nmod

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

Option 3

A bronze vessel brimming with the sacred water of the Boyne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vessel	det
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vessel	amod
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	brimming	brim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 vessel	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
7	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brimming	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Boyne	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Boyne	det
11	Boyne	Boyne	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 water	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brim	gerund	a bronze vessel not said here					with the sacred water of the Boyne	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dish of clear water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dish	det
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dish	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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