Test 6 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Did the herd, like, get paid in dosh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, pay · To what, where: herd, dosh

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2007 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a poor fisherman promises his first son to the sea-maiden, and the son sets out» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herd	det
3	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	8 paid	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 paid	aux:pass
8	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Did	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 dosh	case
10	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the herd					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Eventuality
2	pay	infinitive · passive				dosh			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

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

In coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 coins	case
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Paid in silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 silver	case
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle				silver			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Paid in milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 milk	case
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle				milk			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

In cattle hides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 cattle	case
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hides	obl
3	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present						in cattle	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cattle=Location

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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