Test 1 · ★ · Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked…
Yo, did Fionn's hounds actually get beaten by a hundred dogs or is that just a made-up story thing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hundred dogs · What happens: do, beat, make up, be · To what, where: hounds, made story thing
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1050 «Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked boy among the fighting hounds and takes him home as his own» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hounds | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fionn | case |
| 6 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 beaten | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beaten | aux:pass |
| 9 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hounds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 dogs | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 dogs | nummod |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beaten | obl:agent |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 thing | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 thing | mark |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 thing | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 thing | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 up | punct |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 made | compound:prt |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thing | compound |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beaten | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fionn's hounds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | beat | present · passive | hundred dogs | Fionn's hounds not said here | actually property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||
| 3 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | hundred dogs not said here | a made story thing | 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
Yeah, a hundred dogs chased the five wise hounds off the slope into the trees
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 chased | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chased | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dogs | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dogs | nummod |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chased | nsubj |
| 6 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hounds | det |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hounds | nummod |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hounds | amod |
| 10 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chased | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 slope | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 slope | det |
| 13 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chased | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chased | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | a hundred dogs | the five wise hounds | the trees | off the slope | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hound=Theme off slope=Trajectory |
Option 2
Nah, they just barked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 barked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 barked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 barked | advmod |
| 5 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past | they | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, just five hounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 hounds | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 five | advmod |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hounds | nummod |
| 5 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, the five wise hounds were holding a circle against a hundred dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 holding | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hounds | det |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hounds | nummod |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hounds | amod |
| 6 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 holding | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 holding | aux |
| 8 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 circle | det |
| 10 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holding | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 dogs | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 dogs | nummod |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 holding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · progressive | the five wise hounds | a circle | against hundred dogs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent circle=Theme against dog=Location |
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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