Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bulle…
Did the father send Fair off in a boat, or just a barrel?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: send off · To what, where: boat
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2013 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bullet and the cowboy's message» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | nsubj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 send | xcomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 send | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 boat | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boat | det |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 barrel | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 barrel | cc |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 barrel | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 barrel | det |
| 14 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boat | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send off | past · do-support | the father | a boat or a barrel | fair property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in boat=Destination |
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
A barrel with food for seven years and a golden sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 barrel | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 barrel | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sword | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sword | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sword | amod |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 barrel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A small boat with some food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boat | amod |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 food | det |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A barrel with food for seven years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 barrel | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 barrel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A barrel with bread for a whole year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 bread | case |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 barrel | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 barrel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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