Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

Whaur did the prince chase the birds, on the moors or whaur?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whaur · What happens: chase · To what, where: birds, moors

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» 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	Whaur	Whaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chase	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chase	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chase	nsubj
5	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chase	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moors	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 moors	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moors	det
11	moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chase	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 whaur	cc
13	whaur	whaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moors	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chase	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · do-support	Whaur	the birds		the moors or whaur			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on moor=Trajectory

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

in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 forest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by the loch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 loch	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 loch	det
3	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

far awa on the moors o the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 awa	advmod
2	awa	awa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 moors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moors	det
5	moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 awa	nmod
6	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	8 north	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 north	det
8	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moors	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

on the moors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 moors	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moors	det
3	moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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