Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

Wait, whose voice did Fionn reckon was sweeter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, voice · What happens: wait, reckon, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sweeter	cop
9	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 reckon	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reckon	past · do-support	voice		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	voice not said here	sweet 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 · ← Mova's choice

the hounds' yelping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hounds	det
2	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yelping	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 hounds	case
4	yelping	yelping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yelp		the hounds						nom yelping «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

the lark's song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lark	det
2	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lark	case
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing		the lark						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Saeve's voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Saeve	case
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the cuckoo's call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cuckoo	det
2	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cuckoo	case
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call		the cuckoo						nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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