Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Yo, who actually sorted the three-heid beast, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sort · To what, where: heid beast

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 sorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sorted	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sorted	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 sorted	advmod
5	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beast	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 heid	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 three	punct
9	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beast	compound
10	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sorted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 real	case
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorted	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past		the heid beast				actually property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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 · ← Mova's choice

the dairymaid's brother who herds cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dairymaid	det
2	dairymaid	dairymaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dairymaid	case
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 herds	nsubj
6	herds	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	acl:relcl
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 herds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	present	the dairymaid's brother	cows					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

Option 2

the youth on the black horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 youth	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the black-horse lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 black	punct
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lad	compound
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the king's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	son	son	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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