Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…
Wha wis the soothsayer's big warnin, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wha · What happens: wi · To what, where: big warnin
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1994 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden girl is found by a lost hunter, and the king sets out to take her» 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 | Wha | Wha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wis | nsubj |
| 2 | wis | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soothsayer | det |
| 4 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warnin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 soothsayer | case |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warnin | amod |
| 7 | warnin | warnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wis | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 2 wis | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wis | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi | present | Wha | the soothsayer's big warnin | tree rules |
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 bairn wid bring a thousand deid men oot o the hills an dales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wid | det |
| 2 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wid | compound |
| 3 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 oot | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 7 | deid | deid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 oot | compound |
| 9 | oot | oot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 10 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 12 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hills | det |
| 12 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dales | det |
| 14 | dales | dale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hills | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | the bairn wid | a men oot | of the hills and a dales | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent oot=Theme of hill=Initial_Location |
Option 2
the bairn wid bring the warst fecht in Erin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wid | det |
| 2 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wid | compound |
| 3 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warst | det |
| 6 | warst | warst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | fecht | fecht | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Erin | case |
| 9 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fecht | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | the bairn wid | the warst | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fecht | infinitive | the bairn wid not said here | Erin | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the wean wid cause the biggest bloodshed in Erin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wid | det |
| 2 | wean | wean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wid | amod |
| 3 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 4 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bloodshed | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 bloodshed | amod |
| 7 | bloodshed | bloodshed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Erin | case |
| 9 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bloodshed | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | the wean wid | the biggest bloodshed | Erin | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bloodshed=Patient |
Option 4
the wee lassie wid start the maist terrible wars in aw Erin an Alba
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wid | det |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wid | amod |
| 3 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wid | compound |
| 4 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 start | nsubj |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wars | det |
| 7 | maist | maist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wars | compound |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wars | amod |
| 9 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 start | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Erin | case |
| 11 | aw | aw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Erin | compound |
| 12 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wars | nmod |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Alba | det |
| 14 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Erin | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | infinitive | the wee lassie wid | the maist terrible wars | aw Erin | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |
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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