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Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…

Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots? Like, a proper mob?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many blokes · What happens: wait, end up

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ended	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blokes	amod
5	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ended	nsubj
6	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 ended	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 spots	case
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spots	amod
10	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ended	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	end up	past	many blokes					with black spots	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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: Like, a proper mob?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	5 mob	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mob	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mob	amod
5	mob	mob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mob	punct

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

The options

Option 1

fifteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

about twenty of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 twenty	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

twenty-odd men in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 twenty	punct
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 men	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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