Test 2 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Wait, how old was the lad when the sea-maiden came back?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sea maiden · What happens: wait, be, come back · To what, where: old lad

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lad	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lad	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maiden	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the old lad	tree rules
3	come back	past	the sea maiden		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Two years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Eighteen years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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