Test 2 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Yo, how many dodgy lads tried to scam him on the road?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many dodgy lads · What happens: try · To what, where: scam, road

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lads	amod
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lads	amod
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 scam	mark
9	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	obj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scam	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	many dodgy lads	scam		the road			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scam=Eventuality

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

Two, plus a mate or two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
3	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	5 mate	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mate	det
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	vocative
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 two	cc
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three, the same as us lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 lot	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lot	compound
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 same	obl

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

Option 3

Two, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Just one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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.

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