Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

Wait, why are the Hill Folk called that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Hill Folk · What happens: wait, be, call · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Wait	parataxis
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Folk	det
6	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Folk	compound
7	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	ccomp
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 called	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present			why property	tree rules
3	call	past	the Hill Folk	that		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient

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

they dwell in tall grey towers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dwell	nsubj
2	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 towers	case
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 towers	amod
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 towers	amod
6	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dwell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	present	they			tall grey towers			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location

Option 2

they are small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					small property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they live in round green hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hills	case
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hills	amod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hills	amod
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they			round green hills			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location

Option 4

they are fairies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fairies	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fairies	cop
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	fairies					tree rules

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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