Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…

Yo, what did the harpers end up doing to each other?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: harpers · What happens: do, end up

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 harpers	det
6	harpers	harper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 doing	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the harpers		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	do	gerund		to each	vn act-114-1 «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

Cracking skulls and smashing harps, bruv, right across the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cracking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 smashing	cc
4	smashing	smash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Cracking	conj
5	harps	harp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smashing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harps	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 floor	punct
9	right	right	ADV	_	12 floor	advmod
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cracking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	gerund		skulls		the floor			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme
2	smash	gerund		harps and bruv					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cracking skulls, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 skulls	amod
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skulls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cracking each other's skulls, bruv, till the hall went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 went	csubj
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 other	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skulls	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 other	case
5	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cracking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skulls	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	gerund		each other's skulls and bruv					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme
2	go	past	the hall					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Playing tunes, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Playing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tunes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		tunes and bruv					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme

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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