Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

Be honest, who could even see the maiden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, see · To what, where: maiden

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 see	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					honest property	tree rules
2	see	could		the maiden					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus

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

only the Hill Folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	4 Folk	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Folk	det
3	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Folk	compound
4	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

only Connla

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	2 Connla	advmod
2	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Druid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Druid	det
2	Druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Druid alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Druid	det
2	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Druid	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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