Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…
Dude, what did the storyteller say he'd keep?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, say, keep · To what, where: storyteller · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dude | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storyteller | det |
| 6 | storyteller | storyteller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | the storyteller | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storyteller=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Dude | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep | would | Dude | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
His carriage and hounds, dude
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 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hounds | cc |
| 4 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carriage | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carriage | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His horse and sword, dude
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 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sword | cc |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His hounds, dude
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 hounds | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dude | punct |
| 4 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hounds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
His wife and coins, dude
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 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 coins | cc |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wife | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
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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