Test 8 · ★ · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…
Did the seals join in the dancing craic, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seals · What happens: join
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seals | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seals | det |
| 3 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 join | nsubj |
| 4 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 craic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 craic | det |
| 7 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 craic | compound |
| 8 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 join | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 join | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 join | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | the seals | in the dancing craic | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in craic=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
Yes, in a ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 ring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ring | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ring | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, they swam in circles around the whole crowd of dancers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 swam | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 circles | case |
| 6 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swam | obl |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 crowd | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crowd | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crowd | amod |
| 10 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swam | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dancers | case |
| 12 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crowd | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | they | circles | around the whole crowd of dancers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory |
Option 3
Yes, they rolled and bobbed like the waves on the shore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 rolled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bobbed | cc |
| 6 | bobbed | bob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rolled | conj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bobbed | obl:agent |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bobbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | they | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bob | participle | they not said here | the shore | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, like waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 waves | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waves | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 waves | case |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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