Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

Ma, why was the farmer's wife late for Mass, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: Ma

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Ma	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 farmer	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
9	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 wife	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Mass	case
11	Mass	Mass	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	8 wife	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ma	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the farmer's wife for Mass	Ma not said here				why property	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

she was lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		she					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

she was sleepy and the cows got loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleepy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sleepy	cop
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cows	det
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sleepy	conj
8	loose	loose	ADV	_	7 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sleepy property	tree rules
2	get	past	the cows					loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleepy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sleepy	cop
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

she got lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	participle	she not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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