Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a ha…
Dermod was well strict about Sundays, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dermod · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Dermod | Dermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 strict | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strict | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 strict | advmod |
| 4 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 Sundays | case |
| 6 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 strict | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strict | punct |
| 8 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 strict | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 strict | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dermod | sunday | strict, well 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
Totally, no wolves on Sundays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 wolves | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Totally | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 wolves | det |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Sundays | case |
| 6 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 wolves | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Totally, no fairies allowed out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Totally | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fairies | det |
| 4 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 allowed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow out | participle · passive | no fairies | totally property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Totally, he banned fairies from using the earth on any Sunday, no matter what
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 banned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Totally | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 banned | nsubj |
| 4 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 banned | obj |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 using | mark |
| 7 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 banned | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 using | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Sunday | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 Sunday | det |
| 12 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 using | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 matter | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sunday | appos |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 banned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | past | he | fairies | totally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | he not said here | the earth | sunday | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
Option 4
Totally, no fairies allowed out, not even for a single minute on Sunday
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Totally | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fairies | det |
| 4 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 allowed | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 minute | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 minute | advmod |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 minute | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 minute | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 minute | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minute | amod |
| 13 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Sunday | case |
| 15 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 minute | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow out | participle · passive | no fairies | minute | totally property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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