Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…
How long did the mantle hang about, like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mantle · What happens: hang about
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1988 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches and a sieve of water» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 hang | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hang | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mantle | det |
| 5 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hang | nsubj |
| 6 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 hang | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hang | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 hang | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang about | past · do-support | the mantle | about, long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Forever, like, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forever | forever | ADV | _ | 5 mad | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forever | punct |
| 3 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 1 Forever | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forever | punct |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Five hundred years, mad, through every king and every flood in the country
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mad | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flood | cc |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 flood | det |
| 12 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven hundred years, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Five hundred years, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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