Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…

Where did the cats have their big cronan, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cats · What happens: be, have · To what, where: big cronan

This is test 8 · ★ 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 have	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cats	det
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 like	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cronan	nmod:poss
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cronan	amod
8	cronan	cronan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	have	present	the cats	cats's big cronan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cronan=Patient

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 byre near the herd's bothy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 byre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 byre	det
3	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	8 bothy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 herd	det
6	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bothy	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 herd	case
8	bothy	bothy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 byre	nmod

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

Option 2

In the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 stable	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stable	det
3	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

In the far end of the herd's bothy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 end	amod
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 bothy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 herd	det
7	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bothy	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 herd	case
9	bothy	bothy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the herd's bothy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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