Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…
who was the king's uncle who got sent out with a message?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, send out · To what, where: uncle
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1995 «Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, Naois takes her to Scotland, and Connachar invites them back to a feast» 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 uncle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 uncle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux:pass |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 uncle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sent | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 message | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 message | det |
| 13 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 uncle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's uncle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send out | past · passive | the king's uncle | with a message | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Naois, with his two brothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brothers | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 brothers | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Naois | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ferchar Mac Ro and Deirdre's nurse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 3 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nurse | cc |
| 5 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Deirdre | case |
| 7 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Ferchar Mac Ro, with his three sons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 3 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sons | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sons | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sons | nummod |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ferchar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Ferchar Mac Ro, with his three sons, the men who had sworn to protect Naois on the road
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sons | nsubj |
| 2 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 3 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sons | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sons | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sons | nummod |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 men | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sons | conj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sworn | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sworn | aux |
| 14 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 men | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 protect | mark |
| 16 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sworn | advcl |
| 17 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 protect | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 protect | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past · perfect | the men | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | the men not said here | Naois | the road | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naois=Beneficiary |
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