Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…
Whit did the hunter dae straight efter the hill?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: hunter
This is test 8 · ★ 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunter | det |
| 4 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | dae | dae | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 hunter | dep |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 hill | advmod |
| 7 | efter | efter | ADV | _ | 9 hill | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | the hunter | the hill obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Eventuality |
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
went tae see his faither's hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | tae | tae | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 see | mark |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 went | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 faither | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faither | faither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hall | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 faither | case |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | his faither's hall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hall=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
went tae King Connachar's palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | tae | tae | ADP | Foreign=Yes | 6 palace | case |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | flat |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | tae King's palace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
rode tae the castle at the toun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rode | rode | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 castle | nsubj |
| 2 | tae | tae | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 rode | flat:foreign |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 castle | det |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 toun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 toun | det |
| 7 | toun | toun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 castle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
went tae the king's palace and telt him aboot the lassie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | tae | tae | ADP | Foreign=Yes | 6 palace | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 telt | cc |
| 8 | telt | telt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 went | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 telt | obj |
| 10 | aboot | aboot | ADP | _ | 12 lassie | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lassie | det |
| 12 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 telt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | tae the king's palace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | telt | past | king | aboot the lassie | tree rules |
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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