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Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Ye know the Black Gallows Bird, the class thief? Why couldn't anyone catch him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ye, anyone · What happens: know, not catch · To what, where: Gallows Bird, Bird

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Ye know the Black Gallows Bird, the class thief?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bird	det
4	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Gallows	amod
5	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Bird	compound
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thief	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thief	det
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thief	compound
10	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Bird	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Ye	the Gallows Bird					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: Why couldn't anyone catch him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 catch	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 catch	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 catch	advmod
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 catch	nsubj
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 catch	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	could	anyone	Bird					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

The options

Option 1

he hid in trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he			trees			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he was too quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quick	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 quick	advmod
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					quick property	tree rules

Option 3

he could run faster than any man in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Ireland	case
9	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	could	he					than any man in Ireland; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nobody ever saw him in the day because he was hidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 saw	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 hidden	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hidden	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hidden	aux:pass
11	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	nobody	him = he			ever; day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	hide	past · passive		he					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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