Test 5 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…
who was the pilot on that boat then, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: pilot, boat
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 pilot | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pilot | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pilot | det |
| 4 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pilot | nmod |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pilot | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 pilot | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pilot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the pilot | that boat | then | 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 lion cub, but only pretending tae be a sailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cub | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cub | compound |
| 3 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretending | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 pretending | cc |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 pretending | advmod |
| 7 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cub | acl:relcl |
| 8 | tae | tae | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 sailor | nsubj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sailor | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sailor | det |
| 11 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pretending | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | the lion cub not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | tae | a sailor | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the lion cub, pretending
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cub | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cub | compound |
| 3 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretending | punct |
| 5 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cub | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | the lion cub not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
some hooded fella fae the witch's crew, ken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 fella | det |
| 2 | hooded | hood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fella | amod |
| 3 | fella | fella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crew | nsubj |
| 4 | fae | fae | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 fella | dep |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crew | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 witch | case |
| 8 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ken | punct |
| 10 | ken | ken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crew | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hood | participle | tree rules |
Option 4
the auld armourer, like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 armourer | det |
| 2 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 armourer | amod |
| 3 | armourer | armourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 armourer | punct |
| 5 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 armourer | discourse |
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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