Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…
Whit did the third sister's son keep?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do, keep · To what, where: son
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1302 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea» 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sister | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | the third sister's son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | Whit not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Every bird in the sky an' every fish in the deep sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fish | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sky | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bird | nmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fish | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sea | amod |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fish | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The keys o' the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 keys | det |
| 2 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 castle | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 castle | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keys | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The birds o' the air and aw the beasts o' the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 aw | nsubj |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 air | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 air | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 aw | cc |
| 8 | aw | aw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beasts | det |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 aw | obj |
| 11 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 forest | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 aw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aw | past | the birds of the air | the beasts | of the forest | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The birds o' the air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 air | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 air | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | nmod |
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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