Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

what was the feast actually for, like a birthday?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feast · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 birthday	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 birthday	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 birthday	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 birthday	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 birthday	det
10	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the feast for a birthday						tree rules

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

A happy party for his old friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 party	det
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 party	amod
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 friends	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friends	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friends	amod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 party	nmod

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

Option 2

A big gleeful do for all his mates, with music, wine and games in the hall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gleeful	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gleeful	amod
3	gleeful	gleeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 mates	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 mates	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mates	nmod:poss
8	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 music	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 music	case
11	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mates	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wine	punct
13	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mates	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 games	cc
15	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mates	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a big gleeful			the hall		for his mates and music and wine and games	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A big gleeful do for all his mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gleeful	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gleeful	amod
3	gleeful	gleeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 mates	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 mates	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mates	nmod:poss
8	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a big gleeful					for his mates	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A grand hunt for all his nobles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hunt	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunt	amod
3	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 nobles	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 nobles	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nobles	nmod:poss
7	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nmod

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

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