Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gorla of the Flocks, part 50: Covan fe…

yo Covan, were ur cows totally wild in that heather or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cows · What happens: be · To what, where: heather

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1184 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gorla of the Flocks, part 50: Covan feeds the raven, herds the cows through fire and flood, and is sheltered by two friends» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 wild	discourse
2	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 yo	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	cop
5	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cows	nmod:poss
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wild	nsubj
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 wild	advmod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heather	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 heather	det
11	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wild	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 heather	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	ur's cows			that heather		totally, wild 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

yeah, mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mental	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

totally wild, they just went through the blaze like it was normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	totally	totally	ADV	_	2 wild	advmod
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 normal	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wild	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 blaze	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blaze	det
9	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 normal	cop
13	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they			the blaze		like blaze	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through blaze=Initial_Location
2	is	past						normal property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dead wild, they just walked thru the fire like it was nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wild	amod
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walked	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	thru	through	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 nothing	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nothing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	cop
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	they			the fire			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fire=Trajectory
2	is	past	fire					like nothing	tree rules

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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