Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

Wait, what's the wren's mad tool for threshing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mad tool · What happens: wait, be, thresh · To what, where: mad tool

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tool	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 tool	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tool	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wren	det
6	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tool	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wren	case
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tool	amod
9	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 threshing	mark
11	threshing	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tool	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the wren's mad tool	tree rules
3	thresh	gerund	the wren's mad tool not said here		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

a spade, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spade	det
2	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spade	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spade	conj

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

Option 2

a hoe, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hoe	det
2	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hoe	conj

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

Option 3

a stick, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stick	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a flail, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flail	det
2	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flail	conj

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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