Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…
Sound, so what did the lad nick from behind the straw?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sound · What happens: do · To what, where: lad nick, straw
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sound | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nick | det |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nick | compound |
| 8 | nick | nick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 straw | case |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 straw | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 straw | det |
| 12 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Sound | the lad nick | the straw | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality |
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 silver and the gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 silver | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gold | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silver | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the gold box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | compound |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the gold and silver chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chest | cc |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chest | compound |
| 5 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the money bags and coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bags | det |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bags | compound |
| 3 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 coins | cc |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bags | conj |
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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