Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…

What's an ostler, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ostler

This is test 12 · ★ 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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ostler	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ostler	det
4	ostler	ostler	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a ostler					tree rules

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 cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a stable lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a stable hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	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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