Test 8 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

What were they hunting up in Old Bergen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: hunt up · To what, where: Old Bergen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1159 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manus is cheated of his share and is offered a sword» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hunting	obj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunting	nsubj
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 hunting	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Bergen	case
7	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bergen	amod
8	Bergen	Bergen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hunting	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hunting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt up	past · progressive	they			Old Bergen			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in bergen=Location

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

elk, like proper fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 elk	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 proper	case
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	1 elk	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 proper	advmod

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

Option 2

reindeer, like proper big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 big	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 big	case
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 reindeer	amod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

reindeer, like proper fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 proper	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 proper	case
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	1 reindeer	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 proper	advmod

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

Option 4

reindeer, like proper fast, all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fast	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 fast	case
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 reindeer	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 reindeer	conj
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 day	advmod

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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