Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a ha…
The youth was proper fit, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1052 «Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a handsome stranger» 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fit | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fit | cop |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 fit | advmod |
| 5 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fit | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 fit | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the youth | fit, properly 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
Ten times fitter than Crimthann and way more handsome than any man at Tara
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fitter | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | fitter | fit | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 handsome | csubj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 Crimthann | case |
| 5 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fitter | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 way | cc |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Crimthann | conj |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 handsome | advmod |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 handsome | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Tara | case |
| 14 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five times fitter than Crimthann
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fitter | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | fitter | fit | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 Crimthann | case |
| 5 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fitter | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ten times fitter than Crimthann, like the fittest guy she had ever seen in Ireland
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fitter | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | fitter | fit | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 Crimthann | case |
| 5 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fitter | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 guy | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 guy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guy | det |
| 9 | fittest | fit | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 guy | amod |
| 10 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitter | advcl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 guy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Ireland | case |
| 16 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Crimthann | the fittest guy not said here | Ireland | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guy=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ten times fitter than Crimthann
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fitter | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | fitter | fit | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 Crimthann | case |
| 5 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fitter | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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