Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…
Whit wis lyin oan the bushes that mornin?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wis lyin, that · What happens: oan, mornin · To what, where: bushes
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wis | compound |
| 2 | wis | wi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lyin | compound |
| 3 | lyin | lyin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oan | nsubj |
| 4 | oan | oan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bushes | det |
| 6 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 oan | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 mornin | nsubj |
| 8 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bushes | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 oan | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oan | present | wis lyin | the bushes and mornin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mornin | that | 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
frost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
mist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the silver morning dew on the grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dew | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dew | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dew | compound |
| 4 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dew | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
dew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dew | dew | 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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