Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…
What's the bit where she let go? Was it cos she got a fright?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit, she · What happens: be, let, go
This is test 11 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: What's the bit where she let go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 let | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bit | acl:relcl |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the bit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | she not said here | 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.
Sentence 2: Was it cos she got a fright?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Was | obj |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 got | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fright | det |
| 7 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | get property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a call about a flood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 call | det |
| 2 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 flood | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flood | det |
| 5 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a loud cry that the palace was on fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cry | det |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cry | amod |
| 3 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fire | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 palace | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | appos |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fire | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a loud cry | fire | tree rules |
Option 3
a shout of fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shout | det |
| 2 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fire | case |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shout | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout | fire | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a cry about a fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cry | det |
| 2 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cry | nmod |
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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