Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…
Dude, how did the Shifty Lad even spot the dot, like, was he cheating with a mirror or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Shifty Lad, Dude · What happens: spot, cheat · To what, where: dot
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cheating | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spot | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 spot | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spot | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lad | det |
| 6 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Lad | amod |
| 7 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spot | nsubj |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 spot | advmod |
| 9 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Dude | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dot | det |
| 11 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spot | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 13 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 9 spot | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cheating | aux |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cheating | nsubj |
| 17 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mirror | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mirror | det |
| 20 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cheating | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 what | cc |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 mirror | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 cheating | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | past · do-support | the Shifty Lad | the dot | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cheat | past · progressive | Dude | with a mirror | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a silver mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mirror | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mirror | compound |
| 3 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pool | det |
| 2 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a glass window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 window | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 window | compound |
| 3 | window | window | 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/1279-pg3454-part4/t2/