Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…

Mate, who was the old bloke really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: old bloke

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1185 «Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, duck and salmon and wins back his sister» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bloke	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 bloke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bloke	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	appos
8	really	really	ADV	_	7 bloke	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the old bloke					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

The Spirit of Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Spirit	det
2	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Age	case
4	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Spirit	nmod

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

Option 2

The guardian of the cows, who was once a king in the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guardian	det
2	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cows	det
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guardian	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 king	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 king	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 king	cop
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 king	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guardian	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 north	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 north	det
14	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the guardian of the cows	a king		the north		once property	tree rules

Option 3

The king of the glen

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	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 glen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glen	det
5	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod

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

Option 4

The old man who had watched over the valley since before the flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 watched	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watched	aux
6	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 man	acl:relcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 valley	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valley	det
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl
10	since	since	ADP	_	13 flood	case
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 flood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flood	det
13	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect	the old man			the valley	since the flood		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over valley=Location

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