Test 9 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

Was the last hag's sword pretty sick?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: sword

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1061 «Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats the hags and frees the Fianna» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sword	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hag	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hag	amod
4	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sword	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 hag	case
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sick	csubj
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 sick	advmod
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the last hag's sword					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

It was blunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blunt	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blunt	cop
3	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					blunt property	tree rules

Option 2

It hit like a hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 hammer	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hammer	det
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	It					like a hammer	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It smote like a heavy storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smote	nsubj
2	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 storm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 storm	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 storm	amod
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smite	past	It					like a heavy storm	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It cut like a cold knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 knife	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knife	amod
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	It					like a cold knife	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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.

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