Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

Whit did the nurse call the cry at the door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: call · To what, where: cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	5 call	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cry	det
7	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	Whit	the cry				at the door	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent cry=Theme at door=Stimulus

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

a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a lost lamb in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lamb	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lamb	amod
3	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 snow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lamb	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

birds o the air astray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 astray	nsubj
2	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	4 air	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 birds	nmod
5	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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