Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

Whit made Deirdre go pure red in the face?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, Deirdre · What happens: make, go · To what, where: Deirdre

This is test 4 · ★ 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 red	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 face	det
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 red	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Whit	Deirdre					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Deirdre not said here					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

anybody lookin at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 lookin	compound
2	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lookin	nmod

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

Option 2

anybody lookin at her or speakin her name in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 lookin	compound
2	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lookin	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 name	cc
6	speakin	speakin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 name	amod
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lookin	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		her = she			the hall			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 3

the hunter speakin tae her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 speakin	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speakin	compound
3	speakin	speakin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speakin	nmod

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

Option 4

any man that came near her wi a gift or a kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	wi	wi	ADP	_	9 gift	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gift	det
9	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 kiss	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kiss	det
12	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gift	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	any man					near her = she; wi a gift or a kiss	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location

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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