Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…
Lol, the king was stuck up a tree like a hen, wasn't he?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stick up, not be · To what, where: king, he
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuck | aux:pass |
| 6 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stuck | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 hen | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hen | det |
| 12 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 he | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hen | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 he | cop |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 he | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up | past · passive | the king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme tree=Destination | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | he | like a hen | 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
Yeah, he was perched with the others
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 perched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perched | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 perched | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 perched | aux:pass |
| 5 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 others | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 perched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | past · passive | he | with the others | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, he was hiding up there too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hiding | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hiding | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hiding | aux |
| 5 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 hiding | compound:prt |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hiding | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 hiding | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide up | past · progressive | he | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was roosting with the rest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 roosting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 roosting | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roosting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roosting | aux |
| 5 | roosting | roost | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roosting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roost | past · progressive | he | with the rest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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