Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…
Yo, the Shifty Lad bet he could nab the sheep, innit? How much was the bet?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Shifty Lad bet · What happens: nab, innit, be · To what, where: sheep, much bet
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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: Yo, the Shifty Lad bet he could nab the sheep, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 9 nab | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bet | det |
| 4 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bet | amod |
| 5 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bet | compound |
| 6 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nab | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nab | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 nab | aux |
| 9 | nab | nab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheep | det |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nab | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nab | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 nab | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nab | could | the Shifty Lad bet | the sheep | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | the Shifty Lad bet not said here | 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.
Sentence 2: How much was the bet?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bet | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bet | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bet | det |
| 5 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the much bet | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a hundred silver pieces and a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | compound |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 horse | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a hundred gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 coins | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coins | compound |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a hundred silver pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | compound |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
three hundred silver pieces from the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | compound |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | nmod |
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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