Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

Ha, the lad sewed the Gallows Bird's coat to what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: sew · To what, where: coat

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	5 sewed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sewed	nsubj
5	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bird	det
7	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 Bird	compound
8	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 coat	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Bird	case
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sewed	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sewed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sewed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past	the lad	the Gallows Bird's coat					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient to what=Co-Patient

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 thick old blanket from the farm's kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blanket	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blanket	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blanket	amod
4	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kitchen	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 farm	case
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blanket	nmod

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

Option 2

a sheep's wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wool	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sheep	case
4	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a bullock's hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bullock	det
2	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bullock	case
4	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a horse's skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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