Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

Hou auld wis Deirdre when the hunter turned up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hou · What happens: turn up

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Hou	Hou	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
2	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wis	amod
3	wis	wi	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hou	conj
4	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hou	flat
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunter	det
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 turned	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	Hou and auld wis						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

twenty-two an mairriet tae a king's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 twenty	conj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
5	mairriet	mairriet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
6	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	10 son	nsubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 twenty	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	son		tae						tree rules

Option 2

fifteen, near enough a wumman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wumman	punct
3	near	near	ADV	_	4 enough	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 wumman	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wumman	det
6	wumman	wumman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fifteen	conj

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

Option 3

nearly thirty an still livin wi her nurse in the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 livin	nsubj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 livin	det
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 livin	advmod
5	livin	livin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	wi	wi	ADP	_	8 nurse	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nurse	nmod:poss
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 livin	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 livin	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sixteen, near enough grown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 grown	case
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 grown	advmod
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 sixteen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle						enough property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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