Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…
Dude, did the fist really get blown off the lad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, fist · What happens: do, blow off · To what, where: fist, lad
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fist | det |
| 5 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 blown | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blown | aux:pass |
| 8 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fist | acl:relcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 lad | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lad | det |
| 11 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blown | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | the fist | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fist=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | blow off | present · passive | the fist not said here | the lad | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: lad=Patient |
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
Nah, it stayed on, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay on | past | it | mate vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, straight off, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 off | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 off | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 off | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 off | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, it came off, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 came | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fam | punct |
| 7 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come off | past | it | fam | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, it just wobbled a bit, mate, nothing fell off at all
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 wobbled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wobbled | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wobbled | advmod |
| 5 | wobbled | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wobbled | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wobbled | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 fell | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wobble | past | it | a bit | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | nothing | all | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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