Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Ah sure, how did the boy get his ma not to know it was him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ma · What happens: do, get, not know, be · To what, where: boy, ma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 sure	discourse
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sure	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ma	nmod:poss
10	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 know	mark
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 get	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 him	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 him	cop
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	get	present		boy's ma	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ma=Stimulus
3	not know	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	ma	boy	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

changed his voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 voice	nmod:poss
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past		his voice					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

Option 2

hid his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 face	nmod:poss
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past		his face					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

Option 3

used a funny voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 voice	det
3	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 voice	amod
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past		a funny voice					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

Option 4

ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t3/