Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…

Who's the sick dog that catches the roe?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sick dog · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: sick dog, roe

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 dog	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dog	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 catches	nsubj
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dog	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roe	det
9	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the sick dog					tree rules
2	catch	present	the sick dog	the roe					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roe=Theme

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

The Dog of Maol-mor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 mor	case
4	Maol	Maol	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mor	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Maol	punct
6	mor	mor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dog	nmod

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

Option 2

The raven from the peak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 peak	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peak	det
5	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raven	nmod

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

Option 3

The hunting wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
2	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wolf	compound
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The old hound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hound	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hound	amod
3	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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