Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…

Where was the feast, like in which place, was it gas?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gas, feast · What happens: be · To what, where: gas

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gas	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 place	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feast	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gas	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gas	nsubj
13	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	gas					where property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the feast and which place	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 · ← Mova's choice

In the great palace of the sheehogues under the hill, where the feast was grand

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palace	amod
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sheehogues	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sheehogues	det
7	sheehogues	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 palace	nmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sheehogues	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grand	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 grand	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feast	det
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grand	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grand	cop
16	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the feast					grand property	tree rules

Option 2

In the king's great hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hall	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hall	amod
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

In a grand hall in the king's court where the fairy feast was held for three days

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 hall	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hall	det
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hall	amod
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 court	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hall	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 held	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feast	det
12	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feast	amod
13	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	aux:pass
15	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 court	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 days	nummod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · passive		the fairy feast			day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the sheehogues' palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheehogues	det
3	sheehogues	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 palace	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 sheehogues	case
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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