Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

Did the nurse let Deirdre talk tae any boy, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nurse, Deirdre · What happens: let, talk

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talk	nsubj
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	9 boy	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the nurse						tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	Deirdre					tae any boy and mate	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Naw, nae man in the whole world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
3	nae	nae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Naw	appos
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod

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

Option 2

No boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Aye, a wee bit wi the boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	wi	wi	ADP	_	8 boys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bit	nmod

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

Option 4

Naw, but she could speak tae her da

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 speak	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 speak	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	9 da	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 da	nmod:poss
9	da	da	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	Naw					tae Naw's da	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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