Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…

Wait, what did the beggar pull with his ears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: beggar pull

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
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 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pull	det
6	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pull	compound
7	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 ears	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pull	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the beggar pull				with his ears	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Eventuality

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

A nose, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nose	det
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nose	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One ear, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ear	nummod
2	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ear	conj

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

Option 3

Ear, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ear	conj

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

Option 4

Both ears, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ears	det
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fam	nmod:poss
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ears	punct
4	fam	fam	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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