Test 11 · ★★ · Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Irel…
An Irish teacher says, in the old style, "The Oireachtas shall convene." What is the Oireachtas?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Irish teacher, Oireachtas · What happens: say, convene, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the politics 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
Sentence 1: An Irish teacher says, in the old style, "The Oireachtas shall convene."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teacher | amod |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 style | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 style | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 style | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 style | amod |
| 9 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 convene | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 convene | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Oireachtas | det |
| 13 | Oireachtas | Oireachtas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 convene | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 convene | aux |
| 15 | convene | convene | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 convene | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 convene | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Irish teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | convene in a quote | shall | the Oireachtas | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What is the Oireachtas?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Oireachtas | det |
| 4 | Oireachtas | Oireachtas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Oireachtas | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The full Irish Parliament
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Parliament | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Parliament | amod |
| 3 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Parliament | amod |
| 4 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ireland's President's house in the park
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ireland | case |
| 3 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 President | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 park | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 park | det |
| 8 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A tallyman's own notebook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tallyman | det |
| 2 | tallyman | tallyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notebook | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 tallyman | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 notebook | amod |
| 5 | notebook | notebook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
An Irish election count
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 count | det |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 count | amod |
| 3 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 count | compound |
| 4 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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