Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…
Whit big birdie grabbed the bag and flew aff wi' it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit big birdie · What happens: grab, fly · To what, where: bag, aff wi
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | 3 birdie | compound |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 birdie | amod |
| 3 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grabbed | conj |
| 9 | aff | aff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wi | compound |
| 10 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 it | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabbed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | Whit big birdie | the bag | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Whit big birdie not said here | aff wi | birdie obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wi=Theme |
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
A big crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crow | amod |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A great hawk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hawk | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hawk | amod |
| 3 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A big craw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 craw | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 craw | amod |
| 3 | craw | craw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | 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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