Test 10 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Who grabbed that giant by the neck, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: grab, innit

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 giant	mark
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grabbed	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neck	det
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grabbed	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 grabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past						by the neck; giant property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ← Mova's choice

The old falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 falcon	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 falcon	amod
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The black dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The grey hound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hound	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hound	amod
3	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The falcon, who swooped down from above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swooped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swooped	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swooped	nsubj
5	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 swooped	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 above	case
8	above	above	ADV	_	5 swooped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	past	the falcon						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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