Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Wicked, what was the signal to be let down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, let down · To what, where: Wicked signal

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 signal	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 signal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 signal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 signal	det
6	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	aux:pass
9	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 signal	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 let	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 signal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Wicked signal					tree rules
2	let down	to-infinitive · passive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»

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

kicking your legs really hard in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hard	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 kicking	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	gerund		your legs					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2

stamping your boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boots	nmod:poss
3	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stamping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	gerund		your boots					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent boot=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

shaking your legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 shaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund		your legs					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 4

shaking your legs up and down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 shaking	obj
4	up	up	ADV	_	1 shaking	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 down	cc
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 up	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund		your legs					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=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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