Test 9 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Where was the second giant when he came charging?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: second giant, giant · What happens: be, come, charge

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 came	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 giant	acl:relcl
9	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the second giant	where property	tree rules
2	come	past	giant		tree rules
3	charge	gerund	giant not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «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

In the north meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 meadow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meadow	det
3	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meadow	amod
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

At the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In the big park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 park	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 park	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 park	amod
4	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

In the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 field	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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