Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

The king said the horses were shinin pure brilliant, aye?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, horses · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brilliant	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brilliant	cop
7	shinin	shinin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brilliant	nsubj
8	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brilliant	amod
9	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aye	punct
11	aye	aye	INTJ	_	9 brilliant	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the horses					brilliant 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 · ← Mova's choice

they looked fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

their skins shone brightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skins	nmod:poss
2	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	participle	their skins					brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

their coats gleamed weel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 coats	nmod:poss
2	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gleamed	nsubj
3	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	weel	weel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gleamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gleam	participle	their coats	weel					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weel=Theme

Option 4

their hides glowed like gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hides	nmod:poss
2	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 glowed	nsubj
3	glowed	glow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	participle	their hides					like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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