Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…

Was the old beggar a wicked wizard, or just a bit of gossip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old beggar

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beggar	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beggar	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beggar	amod
4	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wizard	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wizard	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wizard	amod
7	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bit	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 bit	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 bit	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wizard	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gossip	case
14	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wizard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old beggar					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

Probably just gossip, but some folks reckon he's a proper wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	3 gossip	advmod
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 gossip	advmod
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 reckon	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 folks	det
7	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wizard	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wizard	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wizard	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wizard	amod
13	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	gossip						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	gossip	a proper wizard					tree rules

Option 2

A real wizard who cursed the corn, or just gossip, probably

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wizard	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wizard	amod
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cursed	nsubj
5	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corn	det
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gossip	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 gossip	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 gossip	advmod
11	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 probably	punct
13	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 cursed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	a real wizard	the corn				gossip obl; probably property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Just gossip, probably

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 gossip	advmod
2	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gossip	punct
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	2 gossip	advmod

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

Option 4

Just a rumour, maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 rumour	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rumour	det
3	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rumour	punct
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	3 rumour	advmod

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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