Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

Ur ye sure Johnny ever rode a horse afore?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Johnny · What happens: ride · To what, where: horse

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 246 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king» 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	Ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sure	nmod:poss
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 sure	nsubj
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rode	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 rode	advmod
6	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rode	obj
9	afore	aforementioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos Typo=Yes	6 rode	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Johnny	a horse			ever		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 never	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 2

Aye, often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 often	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	often	often	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he rode every day in the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hills	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hills	det
9	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he			the hills	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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