Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…
Mate, which cross would the fairy court pass?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cross · What happens: pass · To what, where: Mate
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pass | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 pass | obj |
| 4 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pass | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 court | amod |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | nsubj |
| 9 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | would | cross | Mate | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory |
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 cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cross | det |
| 2 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by the bog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 bog | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bog | det |
| 3 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
near the old mill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 mill | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mill | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mill | amod |
| 4 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
near Templeshambo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | near | ADP | _ | 2 Templeshambo | case |
| 2 | Templeshambo | Templeshambo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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