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Test 2 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Ian was only sixteen, right? Like, a wee lad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ian · What happens: be · To what, where: sixteen

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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

Sentence 1: Ian was only sixteen, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sixteen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sixteen	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 sixteen	advmod
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sixteen	punct
6	right	right	INTJ	_	4 sixteen	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sixteen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ian	sixteen					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.

Sentence 2: Like, a wee lad?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	5 lad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Aye, but he was still a beast in a scrap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 beast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beast	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 beast	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beast	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beast	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	8 beast	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 scrap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scrap	det
11	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beast	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a beast		a scrap	still		tree rules

Option 2

Aye, but he was still a beast in a scrap, though only sixteen years old

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 beast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 beast	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beast	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beast	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	8 beast	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 scrap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scrap	det
11	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beast	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 years	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 years	mark
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 sixteen	advmod
15	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 old	obl:unmarked
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a beast		a scrap	still		tree rules

Option 3

Aye, but he was a big strong lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	9 lad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 lad	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lad	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lad	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lad	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a big strong lad					tree rules

Option 4

Aye, but he was still a beast in a scrap, and nobody could beat him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 beast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 beast	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beast	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beast	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	8 beast	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 scrap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scrap	det
11	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beast	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beat	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 beat	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 beat	aux
16	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beast	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a beast		a scrap	still		tree rules
2	beat	could	nobody	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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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