Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…
Quick one, was the raven good to Covan?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Quick one · What happens: be · To what, where: Covan
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 good | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 raven | det |
| 6 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 good | nsubj |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Covan | case |
| 9 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 good | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Quick one | Covan | good 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, it helped him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 helped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 helped | nsubj |
| 4 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 helped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | it | him = he | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
Option 2
It stole his bait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bait | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bait | bait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stole | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | It | his bait | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bait=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bait | his = he | nom bait «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 really | advmod |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
No, it stole the duck and left Covan standing alone on the bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 stole | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 duck | det |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | conj |
| 9 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 left | advcl |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 standing | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bank | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bank | det |
| 14 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | it | the duck | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location duck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Covan | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covan=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the bank | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
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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