Test 9 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…
Which lads were after the lady, like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lads · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 lads | det |
| 2 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lady | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lady | cop |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 8 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 lady | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | which lads | after the lady | tree rules |
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
the young men of Dublin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Dublin | case |
| 5 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
all the princes of Erin and every lad who came to the church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 princes | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Erin | case |
| 5 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 princes | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lad | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 lad | det |
| 8 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Erin | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lad | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | every lad | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
all the princes of Erin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 princes | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Erin | case |
| 5 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 princes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
every prince and young man from Emania down to the southern sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 down | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 man | cc |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Emania | case |
| 7 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 11 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sea | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 down | obl |
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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