Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…
Who was the sneaky bunch that came checking, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sneaky bunch · What happens: be, come, check · To what, where: sneaky bunch
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1989 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft from the king's stable, then a tale of cats» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bunch | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bunch | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bunch | det |
| 4 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bunch | amod |
| 5 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bunch | acl:relcl |
| 8 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 checking | vocative |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bunch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sneaky bunch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the sneaky bunch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | check | gerund | the sneaky bunch not said here | mate vocative | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The king's gillies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gillies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | gillies | gillie | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The king's sneaky men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The stable lads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lads | det |
| 2 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lads | amod |
| 3 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The king's gillies with their torches and dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gillies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | gillies | gillie | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 torches | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 torches | nmod:poss |
| 7 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gillies | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dogs | cc |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 torches | conj |
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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