Test 2 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

was the lad proper clever or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: lad

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clever	csubj
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the lad					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

Proper clever, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 clever	advmod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bruv	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clever	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Dead lazy, innit mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lazy	punct
4	innit	innit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, dim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 dim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	dim	dim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dim	imperative	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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