Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Real talk, what did the Shifty Lad want to find out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do, want, find out · To what, where: Shifty Lad

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lad	det
7	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Lad	amod
8	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 find	mark
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 find	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Real talk	the Shifty Lad	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality
2	want	present	Real talk		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Real talk not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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

how to climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 climb	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 climb	mark
3	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

how it feels to hang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 feels	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hang	mark
5	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	it						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hang	to-infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

how it feels to hang from a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 feels	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hang	mark
5	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feels	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 rope	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	it						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hang	to-infinitive				a rope			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

what it is to die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 what	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 what	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it						tree rules
2	die	to-infinitive							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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