Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gorla of the Flocks, part 50: Covan fe…

so what do the raven and the Dog both say at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: both · What happens: do, say · To what, where: raven, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 do	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 do	obj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Dog	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dog	det
8	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raven	conj
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the raven and the Dog					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	both				at the end		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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

wish for me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 wish	nmod

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

Option 2

come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

wish for me and I won't let you down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 wish	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 let	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wish	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let down	future	I	you					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 4

wish for me and I will help you out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 wish	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 I	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 wish	conj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 help	aux
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 help	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	future	wish for me		you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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