Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal houn…
Was Gellert a dead sweet dog at home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Gellert
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2015 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal hound by mistake» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Gellert | cop |
| 2 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gellert | appos |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dog | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gellert | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gellert | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, proper fierce as a wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fierce | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fierce | punct |
| 3 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 fierce | advmod |
| 4 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 wolf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fierce | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, a bit mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, soft as a lamb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 soft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 soft | punct |
| 3 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 lamb | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lamb | det |
| 6 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soft | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, he was proper vicious and would bite anyone who came near the castle
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 vicious | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 vicious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vicious | cop |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 vicious | advmod |
| 6 | vicious | vicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bite | cc |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bite | aux |
| 9 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 vicious | conj |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 bite | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | properly, vicious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bite | would | he not said here | anyone | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near castle=Location |
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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