Test 13 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

Blud, how'd the husband hold his wife, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband · What happens: hold · To what, where: wife

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» 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	Blud	Blud	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hold	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Blud	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hold	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nsubj
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	7 hold	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	would	the husband	husband's wife				Blud vocative	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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

like iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	2 iron	case
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

tight as iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 iron	case
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tight	obl

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

Option 3

tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

soft as silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 silk	case
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soft	obl

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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