Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…
Whose castle was near the ford, do you reckon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: castle, you · What happens: be, reckon · To what, where: ford
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2005 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare» 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 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 castle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ford | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ford | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 ford | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ford | det |
| 6 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reckon | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reckon | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 reckon | nsubj |
| 10 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ford | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ford | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ford's castle | the ford | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reckon | present · do-support | you | the ford not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ford=Attribute |
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
Red Hugh O'Donnell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Hugh | amod |
| 2 | Hugh | Hugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hugh | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Red Hugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Hugh | amod |
| 2 | Hugh | Hugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Red Hugh Donnelly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Hugh | amod |
| 2 | Hugh | Hugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Donnelly | Donnelly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hugh | flat |
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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