Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…
Any craic at the Hallowe'en party? What were the folk doin'?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: folk doin · What happens: be
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» 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
Sentence 1: Any craic at the Hallowe'en party?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 craic | det |
| 2 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 party | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 5 | Hallowe'en | Hallowe'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 party | compound |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 craic | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 craic | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What were the folk doin'?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doin | det |
| 4 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doin | compound |
| 5 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doin | punct |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the folk doin | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
dancin' in the barn till the sun came up in the morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dancin | dancin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 dancin | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 barn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barn | det |
| 5 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dancin | nmod |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barn | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | dancin in the barn till the sun | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
bobbin' for apples and singin'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bobbin | bobbin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 bobbin | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 apples | case |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 bobbin | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 singin | cc |
| 6 | singin | singin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apples | conj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 singin | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
burnin' nuts, apple-catchin', and tellin' ghost stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnin | burnin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nuts | punct |
| 3 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 burnin | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ', | punct |
| 5 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catchin | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 apple | punct |
| 7 | catchin | catchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ', | compound |
| 8 | ', | ', | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nuts | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tellin | cc |
| 10 | tellin | tellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ', | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 stories | punct |
| 12 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stories | compound |
| 13 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 burnin | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnin | gerund | nuts catchin ', and tellin | ghost stories obl | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
burnin' nuts and apple-catchin'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnin | burnin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nuts | punct |
| 3 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 burnin | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 catchin | cc |
| 5 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catchin | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 apple | punct |
| 7 | catchin | catchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nuts | conj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 catchin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnin | gerund | nuts and apple catchin | tree rules |
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