Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Who gied the advice tae save him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gi, save · To what, where: advice, him

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gied	nsubj
2	gied	gi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advice	det
4	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gied	obj
5	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 save	mark
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gied	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 save	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gi	past		the advice					tree rules
2	save	infinitive		him = he					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

an auld beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beggar	det
2	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beggar	amod
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

an auld soothsayer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soothsayer	det
2	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soothsayer	amod
3	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a wise herdsman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 herdsman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 herdsman	amod
3	herdsman	herdsman	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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