Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…

Bruv, what was the beggar drinking on the bench?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, beggar · What happens: be, drink · To what, where: beggar, bench

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beggar	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 beggar	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beggar	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beggar	det
6	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
7	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 beggar	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bench	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bench	det
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinking	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	the beggar					tree rules
2	drink	gerund	the beggar not said here			the bench			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Ale from a silver flagon with a broken lid, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 flagon	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flagon	det
4	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flagon	amod
5	flagon	flagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ale	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 lid	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lid	det
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lid	amod
9	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flagon	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ale from a flagon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 flagon	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flagon	det
4	flagon	flagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ale	nmod

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

Option 3

Water from a bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 bucket	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bucket	det
4	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	nmod

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

Option 4

Wine from a horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 horn	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horn	det
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wine	nmod

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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