Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…

Yo, was it the Wise Man who dotted the Shifty Lad's cheek, or the king, like, trying to be sneaky?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, Wise Man · What happens: be, dot, try · To what, where: Wise Man, cheek

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 Man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Man	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Man	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
6	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Man	amod
7	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dotted	nsubj
9	dotted	dot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Man	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lad	det
11	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Lad	amod
12	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cheek	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Lad	case
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dotted	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 king	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 king	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Man	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
20	like	like	INTJ	_	18 king	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trying	punct
22	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 Man	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 sneaky	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sneaky	cop
25	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trying	xcomp
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the Wise Man		tree rules
2	dot	past	the Wise Man	the Shifty Lad's cheek		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cheek=Destination
3	try	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			sneaky 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

the Wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wizard	det
2	Wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the attendant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 attendant	det
2	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Wise Man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the chief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	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.

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