Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Dead giveaway, where did he scarper to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: scarper

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 giveaway	amod
2	giveaway	giveaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scarper	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 scarper	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scarper	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scarper	nsubj
7	scarper	scarper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 giveaway	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 scarper	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 giveaway	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scarper	past · do-support	he						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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

another part of the country far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	2 part	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

another part of the country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod

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

Option 3

the next village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 village	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 village	amod
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a distant land across the sea and mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
2	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 land	amod
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mountains	cc
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 land	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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