Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Why'd the sea-maiden come up tae listen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea maiden · What happens: come up, listen

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 maiden	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 maiden	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maiden	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sea	punct
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 come	compound:prt
9	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	10 listen	mark
10	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	present	the sea maiden						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen	infinitive	the sea maiden not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

she was lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lonely	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	cop
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					lonely property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she heard a sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sang	det
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	sing speech: express	past	she not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she was nosy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nosy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nosy	cop
3	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					nosy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she loves music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loves	nsubj
2	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	she	music					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus

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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