Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…

what was that thing coming in the dark

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: thing · What happens: come · To what, where: dark

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1044 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 12: Fionn waits alone in the dark, meets his old friend Fiacuil, and gets ready for the Man of the Shi'» 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	5 coming	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 coming	mark
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	nsubj
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 dark	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dark	det
8	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	thing			the dark			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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 · ✓ the right answer

a darker movement and a presence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 movement	det
2	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 movement	amod
3	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 presence	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 presence	det
6	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 movement	conj

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

Option 2

a horse with a rider on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rider	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rider	det
5	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rider	nmod

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

Option 3

a dark shape and a huge noise that made everything go silent for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shape	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shape	amod
3	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 noise	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 noise	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 noise	amod
7	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shape	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 noise	acl:relcl
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 made	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 go	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ages	case
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	a huge noise	everything					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product
2	go	infinitive	a dark shape and a huge noise				for ages	silent property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for age=Beneficiary

Option 4

a man with a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 torch	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	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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