Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…
Bro, where was that gallows, exactly?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: gallows
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 was | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gallows | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 gallows | mark |
| 6 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gallows | punct |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 gallows | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 gallows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gallows | exactly property | 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
by a river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
beside a road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 road | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
on top of a hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 top | case |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hill | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hill | det |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
in a wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 wood | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1278-pg3454-part3/t8/