Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

Yer man the beggar, what was he holding in his hand, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: hold · To what, where: beggar, hand

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2005 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare» 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	Yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beggar	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beggar	det
4	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 holding	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 holding	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 holding	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 holding	nsubj
9	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 beggar	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	4 beggar	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 beggar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · progressive	man	the beggar		man's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in hand=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

a box and dice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dice	cc
4	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 box	conj

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

Option 2

a bag of coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coins	case
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 3

a cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	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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