Test 1 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

So the fisherman basically promised his kid for fish, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman · What happens: promise · To what, where: kid

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2007 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a poor fisherman promises his first son to the sea-maiden, and the son sets out» 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 promised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promised	nsubj
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	5 promised	advmod
5	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kid	nmod:poss
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promised	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 fish	case
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kid	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 promised	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the fisherman		fisherman's kid			basically property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent kid=Theme for fish=Goal

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

He promised fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	He		fish				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He traded his boat away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	nsubj
2	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 boat	nmod:poss
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traded	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 traded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade away	past	He	his boat				away property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

Option 3

He sold his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	his son					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He promised his first son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 son	amod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	He		his first son				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent son=Theme

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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