Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

Real talk, what does the maiden promise Connla?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do · To what, where: maiden promise

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 promise	det
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 promise	amod
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
9	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 promise	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Real talk	the maiden promise					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality

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

that his youth will never fade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 fade	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 youth	nmod:poss
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fade	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fade	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 fade	advmod
6	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fade	future	his youth						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

that he will be king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 king	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 king	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 king	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 king	cop
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	he	king					tree rules

Option 3

that his beauty will stay bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 stay	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beauty	nmod:poss
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	future	his beauty					bright property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

that he will never grow old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 grow	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	future	he					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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