Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…
Where did the lads bolt to, like, when the gillies came?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lads, gillies · What happens: bolt, come
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 bolt | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bolt | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lads | det |
| 4 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bolt | nsubj |
| 5 | bolt | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bolt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 came | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gillies | det |
| 12 | gillies | gillie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | past · do-support | the lads | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the gillies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Into their hiding holes beneath the floor boards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 holes | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 holes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holes | compound |
| 4 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 boards | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boards | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boards | compound |
| 8 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 holes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Out of the stable door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Into their hiding holes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 holes | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 holes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holes | compound |
| 4 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Into their hiding holes in the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 holes | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 holes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holes | compound |
| 4 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holes | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1989-pg7885-part8/t4/