Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…
What was the landlady gassing about, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: landlady · What happens: be, gas
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1305 «Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 landlady | det |
| 4 | landlady | landlady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | gassing | gas | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 landlady | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 gassing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the landlady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gas | gerund | the landlady not said here | about property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
his new daughter-in-law
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 law | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his sick wife at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his new cart and horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cart | amod |
| 3 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 horse | cc |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cart | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his son's health
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 health | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 son | case |
| 4 | health | health | 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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