Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Wha's the Shifty Lad's big plan, like, when he's grown?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wha · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: big plan, Wha

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» 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	Wha	Wha	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plan	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lad	det
4	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Lad	amod
5	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Lad	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 plan	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grown	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 grown	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grown	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 grown	aux:pass
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 like	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wha	the Shifty Lad's big plan					tree rules
2	grow	present · passive		Wha					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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

be a farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive	a farmer						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

go to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

be a thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thief	det
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive	a thief						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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