Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…

Dude, what was lying all over that plain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: lie · To what, where: plain

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lying	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 plain	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 plain	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 plain	det
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	Dude			that plain			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plain=Location

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

fallen trees and ruined carts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 carts	cc
4	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 carts	amod
5	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	participle							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ruin	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

skeletons of men and horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 men	case
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 skeletons	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 horses	cc
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 men	conj

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

Option 3

countless bones of soldiers, mules and horses in sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bones	amod
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 soldiers	case
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bones	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mules	punct
6	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soldiers	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horses	cc
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soldiers	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 sand	case
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bones	nmod

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

Option 4

the bleached skeletons of men, horses and wolves alike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skeletons	det
2	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 skeletons	amod
3	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 men	case
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 skeletons	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horses	punct
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 men	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wolves	cc
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 men	conj
10	alike	alike	ADV	_	3 skeletons	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleach	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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