Test 2 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

Who came knockin' at the hut door, like, grand?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: come · To what, where: knockin, hut door

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	knockin	knockin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 knockin	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	compound
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	2 came	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grand	punct
12	grand	grand	INTJ	_	2 came	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		knockin		the hut door			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location

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

The king's steward with his men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steward	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 men	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 men	nmod:poss
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steward	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A posh stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
2	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stranger	amod
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steward	det
2	steward	steward	NOUN	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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