Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: th…
why does everyone keep shouting "nothing, nothing" in the tent?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: keep, shout · To what, where: nothing, tent
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1058 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: the Carl stops for blackberries while Fionn waits for news» 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 keep | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 shouting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 nothing | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tent | det |
| 13 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouting | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · do-support | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | everyone not said here | nothing | the tent | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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
They're lost and waiting for news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waiting | cc |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lost | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waiting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | They | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | for news | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
No news, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 news | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
They're gutted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gutted | aux:pass |
| 3 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | present · passive | They | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They're just gutted, there's no news yet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gutted | aux:pass |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 gutted | advmod |
| 4 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 's | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 's | expl |
| 7 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gutted | parataxis |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 's | nsubj |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 's | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | present · passive | They | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no news | there | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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/1058-pg2892-part26/t8/