Test 5 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

who gets to pick the trade, though?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, pick · To what, where: trade

This is test 5 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pick	mark
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gets	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trade	det
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 pick	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	pick	to-infinitive		the trade					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

The lad himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 lad	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

His mum decides everything in the house, always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 decides	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 always	punct
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 decides	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	His mum	everything		the house		always property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic

Option 3

His old mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mum	amod
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The whole village council votes on what each child will be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 council	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 council	amod
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 council	compound
4	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 votes	nsubj
5	votes	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 votes	obl
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 be	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	present	the whole village council						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive							tree rules

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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