Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…

What was the ring like on her hand, was it gas or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ring · What happens: be · To what, where: gas

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1984 «Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the sheehogues to a wedding feast, and the princess is carried off» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 gas	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 hand	case
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gas	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gas	nsubj
12	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gas	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 gas	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ring like her hand						tree rules
2	is a	past		gas					tree rules

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

Shiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Sparkling like a cold star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 star	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 star	amod
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sparkling	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Shining bright as the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shining	xcomp
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund						as the sun; bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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