Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Shi', part 1…
ok so the moon was like barely there yeah
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moon · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 8 there | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 there | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 was | compound:prt |
| 7 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 there | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the moon | barely, there property | 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
yeah just a faint light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 light | discourse |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 light | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 4 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 light | amod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
it was a full bright moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moon | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moon | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moon | amod |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moon | amod |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a full bright moon | tree rules |
Option 3
pretty bright
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 bright | advmod |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
just a thin gleam through clouds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 gleam | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gleam | det |
| 3 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gleam | amod |
| 4 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 clouds | case |
| 6 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gleam | 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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