Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the w…
Bro, so what's the lesson, like, don't be greedy yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: lesson
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1992 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Donald O'Neary: the cheats drown the wrong man and chase clouds in the lake» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greedy | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lesson | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 lesson | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 lesson | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lesson | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lesson | det |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 greedy | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 greedy | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 greedy | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 greedy | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 greedy | cop |
| 14 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 14 greedy | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 greedy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bro and the lesson | the lesson | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive · do-support | Bro and the lesson | greedy property | 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, greed pays off in the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 pays | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pays | nsubj |
| 4 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 pays | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay off | present | greed | in the end | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, just be lazy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lazy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 lazy | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lazy | cop |
| 5 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | lazy property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, greed gets you in trouble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gets | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gets | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 trouble | case |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | greed | you | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yeah, honesty always wins out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wins | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wins | punct |
| 3 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wins | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 wins | advmod |
| 5 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 wins | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win out | present | honesty | always property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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