Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…
Mate, how'd he spot her in the line-up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: spot · To what, where: her
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1993 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maiden leaves after three blows» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spot | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spot | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 spot | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 spot | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spot | nsubj |
| 6 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spot | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 up | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 up | det |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 up | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 line | punct |
| 12 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spot | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 spot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | would | he | her = she | in the line up; Mate vocative | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination in up=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 · ✓ the right answer
By her sandal strap, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 strap | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 strap | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strap | compound |
| 4 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proper | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strap | punct |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
By her hair, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 hair | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mate | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hair | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By her ribbon, that's the one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 ribbon | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ribbon | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ribbon | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 one | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the one | by her ribbon | tree rules |
Option 4
By her bangle on the wrist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 bangle | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bangle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bangle | bangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 wrist | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wrist | det |
| 6 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bangle | 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/1993-pg7885-part12/t2/