Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv t…

What's the bit about the bones, like, what's that about?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bit

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1046 «Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv turns the queen into a hound and sends her to Fergus» 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	4 bit	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 bones	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bones	det
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bit	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 what	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bit	conj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 about	cop
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 about	nsubj
14	about	about	ADV	_	11 what	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the bit				about the bones	tree rules
2	is	present						about 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

It was a curse so Tuiren would dig for graves all night

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	4 curse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 curse	det
4	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 dig	mark
6	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dig	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dig	aux
8	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 curse	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 graves	case
10	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dig	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dig	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a curse					tree rules
2	dig	would	Tuiren	a curse not said here			night	for graves	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent curse=Result for grave=Beneficiary

Option 2

Something about bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 bones	case
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Something	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She wanted Tuiren to dig for old bones and chew them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dig	mark
5	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bones	case
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bones	amod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dig	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chew	cc
10	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	Tuiren		tree rules
2	dig not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tuiren not said here		for old bones	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bone=Theme
3	chew	present	She not said here	bones = bone		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She wanted bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	bones					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bone=Theme

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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