Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and…
Mental, how hard could Cucullin stamp?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stamp | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stamp | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 stamp | advmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stamp | aux |
| 6 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stamp | compound |
| 7 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 stamp | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hard enough to shake a village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 shake | cc |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Hard | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 1 Hard | fixed |
| 4 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shake | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | a village | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent village=Patient |
Option 2
Hard enough to crack a rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 crack | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Hard | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 crack | mark |
| 4 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crack | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | to-infinitive | a rock | hard property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
Option 3
Very hard, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 hard | advmod |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 bruv | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hard | punct |
| 4 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Hard enough to shake a townland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 shake | cc |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Hard | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 1 Hard | fixed |
| 4 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 townland | det |
| 6 | townland | townland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shake | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | a townland | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent townland=Patient |
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