Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and…
Oi, what did Fin pull up for a stick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fin · What happens: pull up
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2009 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-maiden dies» 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 6 pull | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 pull | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pull | aux |
| 5 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | nsubj |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pull | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 stick | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stick | det |
| 10 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pull | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past · do-support | Fin | for a stick | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Theme for stick=Beneficiary |
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
A birch tree, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A fir-tree, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fir | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A huge fir-tree he yanked from the earth, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fir | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yanked | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 yanked | nsubj |
| 7 | yanked | yank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yanked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 earth | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yank | past | a huge fir tree | from the earth and mate | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from earth=Co-Patient |
Option 4
A big fir-tree from the glen, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fir | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 glen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glen | det |
| 8 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | conj |
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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