Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…
That dog's gob sounds grim, what did it look like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gob · What happens: sound, look
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1069 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog» 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gob | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dog | case |
| 4 | gob | gob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounds | nsubj |
| 5 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sounds | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 look | obl |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sounds | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 look | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sounds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | that dog's gob | grim property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past · do-support | gob | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
Like a hollow log, dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 log | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 log | det |
| 3 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 log | amod |
| 4 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dark | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 log | punct |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Like the lid of a pot over the fire at the back of the hall
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 lid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lid | det |
| 3 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pot | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lid | nmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pot | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 back | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fire | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Like the lid of a pot, opening sideways
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 lid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lid | det |
| 3 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pot | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lid | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opening | punct |
| 8 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lid | acl |
| 9 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 8 opening | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | the lid of a pot not said here | sideways property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Like the lid of a pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 lid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lid | det |
| 3 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pot | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lid | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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