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Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…

Bruv, the Shifty Lad was twisting a bit of wood round his finger, right? Mad, that's proper dodgy.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv, that · What happens: twist, be · To what, where: bit, finger

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Bruv, the Shifty Lad was twisting a bit of wood round his finger, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 twisting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Lad	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lad	det
4	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Lad	amod
5	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 twisting	aux
7	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 twisting	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 wood	case
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 finger	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 finger	nmod:poss
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 twisting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	7 twisting	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 twisting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	past · progressive	Bruv and the Shifty Lad	a bit of wood		his finger			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bit=Theme round finger=Trajectory

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: Mad, that's proper dodgy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dodgy	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dodgy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dodgy	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dodgy	amod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mad	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					dodgy property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

twisting a shaving of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shaving	det
3	shaving	shaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 twisting	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaving	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	gerund		a shaving of wood					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shaving=Theme
2	shave			wood					nom shaving «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

turning a wooden twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 twig	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 twig	amod
4	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		a wooden twig					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent twig=Theme

Option 3

carving wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carving	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wood	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

whittling a piece of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whittling	whittle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whittling	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whittle	gerund		a piece of wood					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Product

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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