Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Bruv, what did the farmer order after the kid went missing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: do, go · To what, where: farmer order

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	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 order	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 order	compound
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kid	det
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
12	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the farmer order				Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality
2	go	past	the kid					missing property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

get a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cow	det
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	a cow					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus

Option 2

fetch a fat goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goat	det
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goat	amod
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	a fat goat					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

fetch a big bull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bull	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bull	amod
4	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	a big bull					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme

Option 4

bring a dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here		a dog				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination

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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