Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tr…
bro, so Connachar sent like three hundred dudes after them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Connachar · What happens: send
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1996 «Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tricks fail and the three brothers die» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 4 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 dudes | case |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hundred | compound |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dudes | nummod |
| 9 | dudes | dude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dudes | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Connachar | like hundred dudes after dudes; bro vocative | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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
Yeah, three hundred, that's wild
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hundred | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wild | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wild | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wild | cop |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hundred | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | wild property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, three hundred dudes all armed, and they came charging after them at dawn
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 armed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dudes | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dudes | nummod |
| 5 | dudes | dude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 armed | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 armed | advmod |
| 7 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 armed | conj |
| 12 | charging | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 came | advcl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 charging | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 dawn | case |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dudes = dude | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | charge | gerund | dudes = dude not said here | after dudes = dude; dawn | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, more like two hundred, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 hundred | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hundred | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 hundred | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hundred | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, it was actually nine hundred warriors from every province, proper scary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 warriors | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 warriors | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warriors | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 hundred | advmod |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 warriors | nummod |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 province | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 province | det |
| 11 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warriors | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scary | punct |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 scary | amod |
| 14 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 warriors | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | hundred warriors | every province | 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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