Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Whit's the wee lesson fae the tale, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, wee lesson · What happens: be, fae · To what, where: wee lesson, tale

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lesson	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lesson	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lesson	amod
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fae	nsubj
6	fae	fae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tale	det
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fae	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fae	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Whit	the wee lesson					tree rules
2	fae	past	the wee lesson	the tale and bruv					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

Ye cannae rely on pure luck, an' the bishop's men will always catch a thief in the end

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 rely	nsubj
2	cannae	cannae	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rely	aux
3	rely	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 luck	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 luck	amod
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rely	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 catch	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 catch	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 catch	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bishop	det
11	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 men	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 bishop	case
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 catch	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 catch	aux
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 catch	advmod
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rely	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thief	det
18	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rely		Ye					on pure luck	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on luck=Theme
2	catch	future	the bishop's men	a thief			in the end	always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme

Option 2

Ye cannae rely on pure luck, so aye be ready fer the worst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 rely	nsubj
2	cannae	cannae	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rely	aux
3	rely	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 luck	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 luck	amod
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rely	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ready	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 ready	advmod
9	aye	aye	ADV	_	11 ready	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 ready	cop
11	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rely	conj
12	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 ready	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 worst	det
14	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rely		Ye					on pure luck	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on luck=Theme
2	is	infinitive	Ye not said here					aye, bad, f, ready property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ye cannae rely on pure luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 rely	nsubj
2	cannae	cannae	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rely	aux
3	rely	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 luck	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 luck	amod
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rely		Ye					on pure luck	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on luck=Theme

Option 4

Greed always gets punished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 punished	advmod
3	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 punished	aux:pass
4	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Greed	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	present · passive		Greed not said here				always property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»

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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