Test 10 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

what did mac an da'v call the nosey stranger, proper rude?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: da'v · What happens: mac, call · To what, where: nosey stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» 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	3 mac	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mac	aux
3	mac	mac	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 da'v	det
5	da'v	da'v	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mac	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stranger	det
8	nosey	nosey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stranger	compound
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rude	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rude	amod
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stranger	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mac	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mac	past · do-support							tree rules
2	call	infinitive	a da'v	the nosey stranger					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient

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

a flat-faced, nosey, uninvited stranger from the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stranger	det
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 faced	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 flat	punct
4	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stranger	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 faced	punct
6	nosey	nosey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stranger	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nosey	punct
8	uninvited	uninvited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stranger	amod
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 north	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 north	det
12	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stranger	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a grey-bearded old hag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hag	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hag	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grey	punct
4	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hag	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hag	amod
6	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a flat-faced, nosey person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 faced	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 flat	punct
4	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 faced	punct
6	nosey	nosey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a fat-bellied, loud lout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lout	det
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bellied	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fat	punct
4	bellied	belly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lout	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lout	punct
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lout	amod
7	lout	lout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belly	participle							tree rules

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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