Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…
Wasn't the old man minted, though?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: not be
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 minted | cop |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 minted | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minted | nsubj |
| 6 | minted | mint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 though | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 minted | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 minted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the old man | mint property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a pile of gold in the chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 pile | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pile | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pile | det |
| 4 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pile | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chest | det |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pile | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, a box of silver plates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 box | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 box | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 plates | case |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plates | compound |
| 7 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 box | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, just a chest of rags
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 chest | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chest | det |
| 5 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rags | case |
| 7 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, a great pile of gold coins and jewels hidden under the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 pile | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pile | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pile | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pile | amod |
| 5 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 coins | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coins | compound |
| 8 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pile | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jewels | cc |
| 10 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 coins | conj |
| 11 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 coins | acl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | gold coins and jewels not said here | the floor | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under floor=Location |
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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