Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…

Ha, and then the bridge, like, he wanted her to hang him over the wall for a laugh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, her · What happens: want, hang · To what, where: her, him, wall

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	6 bridge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bridge	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bridge	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 bridge	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	11 wanted	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bridge	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hang	mark
14	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hang	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 wall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wall	det
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hang	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 laugh	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 laugh	det
21	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hang	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bridge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	her = she					tree rules
2	hang not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	him = he		the wall		for a laugh	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme over wall=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

yes, he wanted her to hang him over the wall just for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hang	mark
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hang	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 wall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	obl
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 fun	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 fun	case
14	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	her = she					tree rules
2	hang not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	him = he		the wall		for fun	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme over wall=Destination

Option 2

yes, as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 joke	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 joke	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

no, for a dare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 dare	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dare	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 dare	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dare	det
5	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yes, for a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 laugh	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 laugh	det
5	laugh	laugh	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.

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