Test 2 · ★ · Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked…

Bro, wait, why was the lil lad totally bare naked in the middle of a hunt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: lil lad

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lad	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lad	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lad	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
8	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	obl
10	totally	totally	ADV	_	12 naked	advmod
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 naked	amod
12	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 naked	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hunt	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hunt	det
18	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					Bro vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the lil lad					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

Nobody knew whose child he was, he had a torn old cloak on over his hair

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 child	nmod:poss
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 child	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloak	det
11	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cloak	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cloak	amod
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 hair	case
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 hair	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	Nobody	child		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	have	past	child	a torn old cloak	child's hair	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
3	tear	participle				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He just wandered in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 wandered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody knew where he came from, he had no clothes on at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 came	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	ccomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	5 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 clothes	det
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 had	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 all	case
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	Nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past	he			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	he	no clothes	all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

Option 4

No idea, he was naked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 naked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 naked	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 naked	cop
6	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no idea					naked property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t2/