Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…
Was the funeral crowd proper gutted when she giggled, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: gut, giggle · To what, where: funeral, bruv
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1993 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maiden leaves after three blows» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gutted | aux:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 funeral | det |
| 3 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gutted | aux |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 gutted | advmod |
| 6 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 giggled | advcl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 giggled | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giggled | nsubj |
| 9 | giggled | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giggled | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 giggled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | the funeral | properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | giggle | past | she | bruv | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Theme |
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
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 2
Nah, they laughed too, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | they | mate vocative | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they were stunned, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stunned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stunned | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stunned | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stunned | aux:pass |
| 5 | stunned | stun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stunned | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stunned | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stun | past · passive | they | mate vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 bruv | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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