Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…
What's the deal, did he want money for helping?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, want, help · To what, where: deal, money
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 deal | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 deal | det |
| 4 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deal | acl:relcl |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 helping | mark |
| 11 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 want | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 deal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the deal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | past · do-support | he | money | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | gerund | he not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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
The rights of the crown and the hall for a day and a night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rights | det |
| 2 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hall | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hall | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The rights of the crown for a whole day and night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rights | det |
| 2 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 night | cc |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The rights of the crown for a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rights | det |
| 2 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Half the king's treasure at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 treasure | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 treasure | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treasure | the king | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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