Test 5 · ★ · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…
Is the Thief of Sloan a proper old geezer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Thief
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Thief | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Thief | det |
| 3 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 geezer | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sloan | case |
| 5 | Sloan | Sloan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Thief | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 geezer | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 geezer | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 geezer | amod |
| 9 | geezer | geezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 geezer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Thief | of Sloan | 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
Nah, a proper nasty young thief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 thief | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thief | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thief | amod |
| 5 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thief | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thief | amod |
| 7 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a bit lame, but dead sound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lame | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lame | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lame | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sound | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sound | cc |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | amod |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lame | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, just old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 old | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1516-pg540-part13/t5/