Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…

Yo, how much silver did the beggar get for the straw trick?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: much silver, beggar · What happens: do, get

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2006 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangings and a returned wife» 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	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silver	amod
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beggar	det
8	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 trick	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trick	det
12	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trick	compound
13	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	much silver						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the beggar					for the straw trick	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for trick=Source

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

Four quid, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 quid	nummod
2	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quid	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Like ten pieces, mate, for the whole crew at the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 pieces	case
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crew	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 crew	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crew	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crew	amod
10	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crew	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Five pieces, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pieces	nummod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	conj

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

Option 4

Five pieces of silver, mate, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pieces	nummod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 silver	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pieces	punct
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	2 pieces	advmod

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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