Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

Fr, what kind of boat did they hop into?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: hop

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hop	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 boat	case
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hop	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hop	nsubj
9	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	9 hop	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past · do-support	Fr						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the silver wooden curragh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curragh	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curragh	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curragh	amod
4	curragh	curragh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a crystal ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the gleaming crystal curragh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curragh	det
2	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 curragh	amod
3	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curragh	amod
4	curragh	curragh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gleam	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the shining glass currach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 currach	det
2	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 currach	amod
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 currach	compound
4	currach	currach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «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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