Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Irishman and the Blue Mountains, p…

How far was the old man's brother, was it miles or like just round the corner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, it · What happens: be · To what, where: miles

This is test 5 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 miles	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 far	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brother	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 far	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 miles	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 miles	nsubj
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 corner	cc
14	like	like	ADP	_	18 corner	case
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 corner	advmod
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 corner	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 corner	det
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 miles	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 miles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man's brother					far property	tree rules
2	is a	past	it	miles or the corner					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

Eight hundred miles, dead far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 miles	nummod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dead	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 miles	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 dead	advmod

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

Option 2

Round the corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corner	det
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nine miles, near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 miles	punct
4	near	near	ADV	_	2 miles	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nine hundred miles, dead far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 miles	nummod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dead	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 miles	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 dead	advmod

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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