Test 13 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

Was the wife a total grump at the end, like?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wife	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grump	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grump	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grump	amod
6	grump	grump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grump	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 grump	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wife					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

Nah, cheerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 cheerful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was barely talkin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 talkin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talkin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talkin	cop
5	barely	barely	ADV	_	6 talkin	advmod
6	talkin	talkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 talkin	punct

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

Option 3

Aye, she was well sulky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 sulky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sulky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sulky	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sulky	advmod
6	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, she was dead quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quiet	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	amod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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