Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

Were the birds meant tae match, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: birds, tae match

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 birds	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 match	compound
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meant	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	4 meant	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the birds					tree rules
2	mean	past	the birds	tae match					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Topic

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

aw the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aw	aw	INTJ	_	3 same	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

every bird's different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 different	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

each a different hue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hue	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hue	det
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hue	amod
4	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no two the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 two	obj

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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