Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…

Mate, so he nicked the bottle and then dotted the Wise Man? Proper cheeky, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: nick, dot, innit · To what, where: bottle, Wise Man

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Mate, so he nicked the bottle and then dotted the Wise Man?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 nicked	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottle	det
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dotted	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 dotted	advmod
10	dotted	dot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nicked	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Man	det
12	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Man	amod
13	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dotted	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	the bottle				Mate vocative	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
2	dot	past	he not said here		the Wise Man		then		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Destination

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: Proper cheeky, innit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 cheeky	advmod
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 cheeky	discourse
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cheeky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive							tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

two dots on the Wise Man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dots	nummod
2	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 Man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Man	det
5	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Man	amod
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dots	nmod

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

Option 2

two black dots on the Wise Man's cheek and one on the king's sleeve

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dots	nummod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dots	amod
3	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 cheek	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
6	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Man	amod
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cheek	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Man	case
9	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dots	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dots	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 sleeve	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sleeve	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he dotted the Wise Man twice and then ran off with the bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dotted	nsubj
2	dotted	dot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
4	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Man	amod
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dotted	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 dotted	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 ran	advmod
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dotted	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bottle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bottle	det
13	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dot	past	he		the Wise Man			twice property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Destination
2	run off	past	he not said here				then	with the bottle	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with bottle=Material

Option 4

he stole the king's ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	the king's ring					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme

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