Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tell…
What was Conall wearing when he walked out, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, wear, walk out
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1990 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 9: Conall tells the king of a tree-breaking cat fight, then of a giant's cave and a stolen ring, and ends stranded on an island» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 Conall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Conall | cop |
| 3 | Conall | conall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Conall | advcl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 walked | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wearing | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 walked | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Conall | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | conall property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | walk out | past | he | out property | vn resign-10.11 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The buck's skin, with the horns on his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 buck | det |
| 2 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 buck | case |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horns | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 horns | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horns | det |
| 8 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skin | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horns | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Just a torn cloak, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 cloak | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cloak | det |
| 3 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cloak | amod |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cloak | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
A cloak of grey wolf, with his hair out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wolf | case |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wolf | amod |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloak | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hair | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloak | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 cloak | compound:prt |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The buck's skin, with a belt on his waist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 buck | det |
| 2 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 buck | case |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 belt | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 belt | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 belt | det |
| 8 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skin | appos |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 waist | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 waist | nmod:poss |
| 11 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belt | 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.
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