Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…

Yer man giant, what'd he scoff at supper?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: scoff · To what, where: supper

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» 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	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scoff	nsubj
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 man	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scoff	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 scoff	obj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scoff	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scoff	nsubj
8	scoff	scoff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scoff	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 scoff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	Yer's man			supper			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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

Three-quarters of a calf, washed down with ale and wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 quarters	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Three	punct
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 calf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 calf	det
6	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quarters	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 washed	punct
8	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 quarters	acl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 washed	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 ale	case
11	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wine	cc
13	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash down	participle		Three quarters of a calf not said here				with ale and wine	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ale=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Half a sheep and bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 sheep	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bread	cc
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sheep	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three-quarters of a calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 quarters	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Three	punct
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 calf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 calf	det
6	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quarters	nmod

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

Option 4

A whole lamb roasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lamb	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamb	amod
3	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lamb	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle		a whole lamb not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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