Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…
The Big Women wanted the king's bay colt, naw?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Big Women · What happens: want · To what, where: bay colt
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Women | det |
| 2 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Women | amod |
| 3 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colt | amod |
| 9 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 naw | punct |
| 11 | naw | naw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colt | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Big Women | the king's bay colt and naw | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colt=Theme |
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
the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the grey mare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mare | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mare | amod |
| 3 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the bay colt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 colt | det |
| 2 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colt | amod |
| 3 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | 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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