Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

So the maiden chucked him an apple, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maiden · What happens: chuck · To what, where: apple, him

This is test 3 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 chucked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	obj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apple	det
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	the maiden	a apple	him = he				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination apple=Theme

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

an apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a pear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pear	det
2	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a silver apple from the orchard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 apple	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apple	amod
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 orchard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 orchard	det
6	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apple	nmod

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

Option 4

a red ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ball	amod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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