Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

Mate, which wee beastie showed up when the fire was lit in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: beastie, show up, lit · To what, where: fire, wood

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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	6 showed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beastie	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 beastie	nsubj
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beastie	amod
5	beastie	beastie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
6	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 showed	compound:prt
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 lit	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lit	aux:pass
12	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 showed	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	beastie		Mate and wee beastie			tree rules
2	show up	past	Mate and wee beastie			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lit	past · passive		the fire	the wood	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

a hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a slim yellow dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
2	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a tall grey wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a wee brown bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	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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