Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Mate, who got tae untie the knot in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: get, untie · To what, where: knot, end

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 untie	mark
6	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knot	det
8	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 untie	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 untie	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Mate						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	untie	infinitive	Mate not said here	the knot			in the end		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient

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 right answer

the herd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 herd	det
2	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

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 3

the General

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

the auld soothsayer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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.

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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