Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Mate, what was the dodgy trick with the shoe?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: dodgy trick

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 trick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trick	det
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trick	amod
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 shoe	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoe	det
10	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the dodgy trick	the dodgy trick				with the shoe	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

he hid his shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoe	nmod:poss
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he	his shoe					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he smeared one shoe with mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smeared	nsubj
2	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 shoe	nummod
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smeared	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 mud	case
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	past	he	one shoe				with mud	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Destination with mud=Theme

Option 3

he rubbed one boot in dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boot	nummod
4	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rubbed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 dirt	case
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	he	one boot		dirt			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boot=Theme in dirt=Destination

Option 4

he smeared his hat with mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smeared	nsubj
2	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hat	nmod:poss
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smeared	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 mud	case
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smear	past	he	his hat				with mud	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Destination with mud=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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