Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

Who was the mad old hag sitting on the spike?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: spike

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hag	det
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hag	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hag	amod
6	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	nsubj
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 spike	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spike	det
10	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the spike		sit property	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

A priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The one guarding the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund	the one not said here		the horses				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The one guarding the jewels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jewels	det
5	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund	the one not said here	the jewels					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Beneficiary

Option 4

The queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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