Test 9 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…

how's the widow's hut lookin, like bad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hut lookin · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1294 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part 1: Toueno-Boueno catches a wolf by the tail and sells it as a ram, and the wolf ruins the brothers' sheep» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 widow	det
4	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lookin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 widow	case
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lookin	compound
7	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 how	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bad	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 bad	case
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lookin	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 how	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the widow's hut lookin					how property	tree rules

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

Yeah it creaks in the strong wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 creaks	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 creaks	nsubj
3	creaks	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wind	amod
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	present	it			the strong wind			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location

Option 2

Yeah it shakes on windy nights and the roof leaks, so Antoine's mum sends him for leaves

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 shakes	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shakes	nsubj
3	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 nights	case
5	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nights	amod
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shakes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leaks	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaks	nsubj
10	leaks	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shakes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sends	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 sends	advmod
13	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 mum	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Antoine	case
15	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sends	nsubj
16	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shakes	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sends	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 leaves	case
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shake	present	it		night		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	leak	present	the roof				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	send	present	Antoine's mum	roof		for leaves	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah it shakes on windy nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 shakes	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shakes	nsubj
3	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 nights	case
5	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nights	amod
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	present	it				night		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah it's solid, built of stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 solid	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 solid	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 solid	cop
4	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 solid	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 stone	case
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					solid property	tree rules
2	build	participle						of stone	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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