Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…
What was the stranger keepin' that middle-aged man in, lads?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: stranger keepin
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 keepin | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 keepin | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 keepin | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keepin | compound |
| 5 | keepin | keepin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 keepin | punct |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 man | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 aged | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 middle | punct |
| 10 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keepin | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 man | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lads | punct |
| 14 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 man | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 keepin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the stranger keepin | 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
his pocket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 2 | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a little wallet made of leather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wallet | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wallet | amod |
| 3 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wallet | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 leather | case |
| 6 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a little wallet not said here | of leather | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
his wallet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the small wallet he carried on his belt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wallet | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wallet | amod |
| 3 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 belt | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 belt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the small wallet | his belt | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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