Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Wha's the bloke at the end carryin' on his shoulder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wha · What happens: be · To what, where: bloke, end carryin

This is test 11 · ★ 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	4 bloke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 carryin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carryin	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carryin	compound
8	carryin	carryin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bloke	nmod
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 carryin	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 shoulder	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoulder	nmod:poss
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carryin	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wha	the bloke		the end carryin on Wha's shoulder			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

a fat sheep from the upper field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
6	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 field	amod
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sheep	nmod

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

Option 2

a lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a heavy sack of potatoes from the shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sack	amod
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 potatoes	case
5	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sack	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 shed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shed	det
8	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 potatoes	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a fat sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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