Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Tales, The Sons of Uisnech, part 15: the druid's tr…

wait, the druid made a forest out of nothing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, druid · What happens: wait, make · To what, where: forest, nothing

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 druid	det
4	druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 made	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the druid	a forest		nothing			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Product

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

Yeah, a whole forest appeared out of thin air and blocked every road out, sick

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 appeared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 forest	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forest	amod
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 air	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blocked	cc
12	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blocked	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	12 blocked	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sick	punct
17	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 appeared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a whole forest			thin air			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out air=Location
2	block out	past	a whole forest not said here	every road					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a wood no one could get through, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wood	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	through	through	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get through	could	no one	a wood				sick, through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, a wood no one could get through, the trees all grew in a minute, mad

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wood	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	through	through	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grew	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 grew	advmod
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 minute	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 minute	det
17	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mad	punct
19	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get through	could	no one	a wood				through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the trees				minute	all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, a field of stones, not a forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 field	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 stones	case
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 field	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 forest	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 forest	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 field	conj

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

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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