Test 3 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Was the first sword proper rubbish or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: first sword proper rubbish

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rubbish	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rubbish	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 rubbish	amod
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbish	compound
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rubbish	amod
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 rubbish	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rubbish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the first sword proper rubbish					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

It fell apart fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall apart	past	It					apart, fast property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bent	PROPN	_	root	root

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

Option 3

It broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	It						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It shattered to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shattered	nsubj
2	shattered	shatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bits	case
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shatter	past	It					to bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to bit=Result

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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