Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal houn…

Who was the nipper that nearly got eaten?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: eat

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eaten	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nipper	det
4	nipper	nipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	nsubj:pass
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 got	obl
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 nurse's little boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 nurse	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the wolf's young cub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cub	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 wolf	case
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cub	amod
5	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Llewelyn's little son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Llewelyn	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the little son that Llewelyn had left sleeping in the cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
5	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 son	acl:relcl
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 left	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cradle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cradle	det
11	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	Llewelyn	the little son not said here					tree rules
2	sleep	gerund	the little son not said here			the cradle			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=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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