Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian fre…

Real talk, the raven's always after tobacco, is that a thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1142 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian frees the knight's daughter, kills the giant, and is left behind on the island» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tobacco	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tobacco	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 raven	case
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 tobacco	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 tobacco	case
9	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
12	that	that	ADP	_	14 thing	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Real talk and the raven's tobacco					that a thing	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 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, he keeps askin, pal, proper wee bandit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	askin	askin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pal	punct
7	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 askin	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bandit	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bandit	amod
10	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bandit	amod
11	bandit	bandit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 askin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	he	askin and pal and proper wee bandit					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent askin=Theme

Option 2

Aye, he's askin fer it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 fer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fer	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fer	cop
5	askin	askin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fer	compound
6	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fer	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	askin fer and mate					tree rules

Option 3

Aye, he's always wantin it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 wantin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wantin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wantin	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 wantin	advmod
6	wantin	wantin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wantin	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wantin	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					mate vocative; always, wantin property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he's just a wee bird, pal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bird	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 bird	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pal	punct
10	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a wee bird and pal					tree rules

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