Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Wait, why did the shepherd leave the sheep on the grass?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, shepherd · What happens: wait, leave · To what, where: sheep, grass

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 leave	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shepherd	det
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · do-support	the shepherd	the sheep		the grass			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme on grass=Location

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

to fetch the muddy shoe he had dropped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoe	det
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoe	amod
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dropped	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dropped	aux
8	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 shoe	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		the muddy shoe					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	drop	past · perfect	he	the muddy shoe not said here					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

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

to fetch the muddy shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoe	det
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoe	amod
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		the muddy shoe					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 3

to fetch the lost shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoe	det
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shoe	amod
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		the lost shoe					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

to fetch the muddy shoe from up the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoe	det
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoe	amod
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 path	case
7	up	up	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		the muddy shoe		the path			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme from path=Source

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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