Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

Was the old man proper ancient or just a bit old?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old man

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1736 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, part 60: the Irishman learns from an Eagle where the Princess is» 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	4 man	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ancient	amod
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 old	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 old	obl:unmarked
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ancient	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old man					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

Two hundred years old, mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	obl:unmarked
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mental	punct
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj

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

Option 2

Around a hundred, dead old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADP	_	3 hundred	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hundred	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hundred	amod

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

Option 3

Ancient, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ancient	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three hundred years old, mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	obl:unmarked
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mental	punct
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj

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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