Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

Hou long wid a walk tae the sister's hame take, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hou, sister · What happens: wi, take · To what, where: walk

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Hou	Hou	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wid	nsubj
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 wid	advmod
3	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walk	det
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wid	obj
6	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	11 take	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 sister	case
10	hame	hame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	compound
11	take	take	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	3 wid	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wi	past	Hou	a walk				tae the sister's hame take; long property	tree rules
2	take		the sister						nom take «possession transitive»: poss=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

Three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A year and a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 day	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 year	conj

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

Option 3

A month and a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 day	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 month	conj

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

Option 4

Two years or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 so	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 years	conj

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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