Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavi…

So who was the bloke in disguise?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bloke, disguise

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1999 «Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavin mends the goose and the king pays with his land» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 bloke	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bloke	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bloke	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 disguise	case
7	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bloke	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bloke		disguise			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

Saint Kavin, the holiest of all the saints who ever lived in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 holiest	nsubj
2	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Saint	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 holiest	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 holiest	det
5	holiest	holey	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 saints	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 saints	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 saints	det
9	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 holiest	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lived	nsubj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 lived	advmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saints	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Ireland	case
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	all saints			Ireland	ever		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Saint Kavin, who had come to test the king's greed and kindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Saint	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Saint	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 test	mark
8	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 greed	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 test	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kindness	cc
14	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 greed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Saint						tree rules
2	test	to-infinitive	Saint not said here	the king's greed and kindness					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greed=Theme

Option 3

Saint Patrick himself, the holy one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Patrick	compound
2	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Patrick	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Patrick	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Saint Kavin, the greatest of all the saints

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 greatest	nsubj
2	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Saint	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 greatest	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 greatest	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 saints	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 saints	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 saints	det
9	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greatest	obl

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

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