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

Yer man's ma heard a voice in the bushes, yeah, so what did it shout?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ma · What happens: hear, shout · To what, where: voice, bushes

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ma	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 voice	det
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bushes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bushes	det
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shout	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	18 shout	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shout	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 shout	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 shout	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shout	aux
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shout	nsubj
18	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Yer's man's ma	a voice		the bushes			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	shout speech: express	past · do-support	ma						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Murder! Murder!

Sentence 1: Murder!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Murder	punct

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

Sentence 2: Murder!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Murder	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Robbery! Robbery!

Sentence 1: Robbery!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Robbery	punct

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

Sentence 2: Robbery!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Robbery	punct

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

Option 3

Thief!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Thief	punct

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

Option 4

Help!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Help	punct

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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