Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a ha…

Those wolves though, how many were there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolves · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 wolves	det
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 there	nsubj
3	though	though	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 many	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wolves	acl:relcl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that wolves					there 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

A small few of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 few	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 few	amod
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 few	nmod

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

Option 2

A proper big pack of grey wolves, like loads of them all snarling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pack	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pack	amod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pack	amod
4	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wolves	case
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolves	amod
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pack	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loads	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 loads	case
10	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wolves	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loads	nmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 snarling	det
14	snarling	snarling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolves	conj

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

Option 3

Maybe twenty or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 so	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 twenty	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A proper big pack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pack	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pack	amod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pack	amod
4	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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