Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…
Who ended up grabbing the salmon by its tail?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: end up, grab · To what, where: salmon
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | 2 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ended | compound:prt |
| 4 | grabbing | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ended | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 salmon | det |
| 6 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbing | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 tail | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbing | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ended | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | grab | gerund | the salmon | by salmon's tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=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 · ← Mova's choice
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 great otter who had helped Covan on the riverbank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 otter | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 otter | amod |
| 3 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 helped | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 helped | aux |
| 6 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 otter | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 helped | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 riverbank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 riverbank | det |
| 10 | riverbank | riverbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past · perfect | the great otter | Covan | the riverbank | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covan=Beneficiary |
Option 3
The old man's young son
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 | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Doran-donn the otter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doran | Doran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 donn | punct |
| 3 | donn | donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Doran | flat |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 otter | det |
| 5 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Doran | appos |
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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