Test 8 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

how'd the brothers spot the island, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: spot · To what, where: island

This is test 8 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 spot	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 spot	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spot	nsubj
5	spot	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spot	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 island	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	present	the brothers	the island and bruv					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent island=Destination

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

cos they followed a huge golden light from the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 followed	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 light	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	they	a huge golden light		the shore			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent light=Theme from shore=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos of a golden lantern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 lantern	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lantern	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lantern	amod
5	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cos a wee boy told them about a golden lantern on a door in the wood

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boy	compound
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 lantern	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lantern	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lantern	amod
10	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lantern	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	infinitive							tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	a cos wee boy		them = they	the wood		about a golden lantern on a door	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about lantern=Topic

Option 4

cos of a red torch fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 fire	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fire	amod
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fire	compound
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	nmod

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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