Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

Whit did the colt's tail hit that made the shriek, aye?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, tail hit, colt · What happens: do, make, hit · To what, where: tail hit, shriek

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colt	det
4	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 colt	case
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	compound
7	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hit	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shriek	det
11	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 aye	punct
13	aye	aye	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the colt's tail hit	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hit=Eventuality
2	make	past	the colt's tail hit	the shriek	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shriek=Product
3	hit		the colt		nom hit «act transitive»: poss=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 wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the iron gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gate	compound
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the gatepost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the auld stone gatepost at the front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gatepost	det
2	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gatepost	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gatepost	compound
4	gatepost	gatepost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 front	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 front	det
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gatepost	nmod

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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