Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Ngl, what did the Black Rogue do when he wanted down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, want down · To what, where: Black Rogue

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rogue	det
6	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rogue	compound
7	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wanted	aux
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 wanted	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 wanted	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the Black Rogue					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rogue=Eventuality
2	want down	present · do-support	Ngl						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 right answer

whistled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whistled	whistle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

waved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	participle							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

shouted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

clapped twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clapped	clap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 clapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	participle						twice property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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