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

Dude, which noise did the boy copy to fool the shepherd?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: noise · What happens: copy, fool · To what, where: Dude, shepherd

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 copy	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 copy	obj
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copy	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 copy	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copy	nsubj
8	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fool	mark
10	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 copy	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shepherd	det
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fool	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past · do-support	noise	Dude					tree rules
2	fool	to-infinitive	noise not said here	the shepherd					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient

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

a frightened sheep's loud bleat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bleat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 sheep	case
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bleat	amod
6	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleat		a frightened sheep						nom bleat «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

a goat's call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 goat	case
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call		a goat						nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a sheep's bleat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bleat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sheep	case
4	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleat		a sheep						nom bleat «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

the bleat of a sheep calling for its lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bleat	det
2	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bleat	nmod
6	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bleat	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 lamb	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lamb	nmod:poss
9	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	the bleat of a sheep not said here					for sheep's lamb	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for lamb=Recipient
2	bleat		a sheep						nom bleat «event intransitive»: of=agent

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