Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

when he sees the hanging dude, what does the man say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, man · What happens: see, say · To what, where: hanging dude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1519 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a man's ox with a shoe and a trick» 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	when	when	SCONJ	_	3 sees	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
5	hanging	hanging	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dude	amod
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dude	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	he	the hanging dude					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dude=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the man	the hanging dude					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

that's a right mess, what a sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mess	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mess	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mess	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mess	amod
5	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sight	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 sight	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sight	det
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a right mess and a sight					tree rules
2	sight		a right mess and a sight						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

what a rough deal, that's so sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deal	det
3	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deal	amod
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sad	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 sad	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sad	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 sad	advmod
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 what	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					sad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

what a dodgy lad, he's up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 lad	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lad	det
3	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lad	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 up	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 up	cop
8	up	up	ADV	_	4 lad	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	what dodgy lad not said here				up property	tree rules

Option 4

what a rough deal, that's so sad, I'd better get the lad down now

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 get	obj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deal	det
3	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deal	amod
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sad	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 sad	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sad	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 sad	advmod
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 what	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
13	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lad	det
16	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	down	down	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					sad property	tree rules
2	get down	would	I	the lad			now	down, well property	tree rules

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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