Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gorla of the Flocks, part 50: Covan fe…

what's the deal with the foal on the bare field, was it chunky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 chunky	obl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 foal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foal	det
7	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
10	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 field	amod
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 foal	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 chunky	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chunky	nsubj
15	chunky	chunky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 chunky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the foal on the bare field						tree rules
2	is	past	deal					chunky 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 · ✓ the right answer

loads chunky, fatter than a pig after a feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loads	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	chunky	chunky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 loads	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fatter	punct
4	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 loads	conj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 pig	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pig	det
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fatter	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 feast	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 feast	det
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 loads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	present					after a feast	chunky property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

dead chunky, like a sack of potatoes with legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chunky	amod
2	chunky	chunky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sack	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sack	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 sack	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 potatoes	case
8	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sack	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 legs	case
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 potatoes	nmod

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

Option 3

nah, skinny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 skinny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

super round, like a bag of oats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	super	super	ADV	_	2 round	advmod
2	round	round	ADV	_	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 round	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 bag	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 round	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 oats	case
8	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bag	nmod

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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