Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…

Was the salmon's gills red, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gills · What happens: be, innit

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 red	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salmon	det
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gills	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 salmon	case
5	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 red	nsubj
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 red	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the salmon's gills					red property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

They were brown, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brown	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brown	cop
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brown	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					mate vocative; brown property	tree rules

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root

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

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, they were red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 red	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 red	cop
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					red property	tree rules

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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