Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

Was mac an Da'v a proper muppet with the amens?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: mac

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1073 «Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the priests and wins back Duv Laca» 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	2 mac	cop
2	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 muppet	nsubj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Da'v	det
4	Da'v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mac	appos
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 muppet	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 muppet	amod
7	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 amens	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 amens	det
10	amens	amen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 muppet	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 muppet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		mac					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

Yeah, he kept saying prayers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prayers	amod
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	saying prayers					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he kept saying amen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 amen	amod
6	amen	amen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	saying amen					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amen=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, he was quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					quiet property	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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