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Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the cal…

Did yer stepdad no' say he'd kill the calf? Naw way!

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: stepda, say, kill · To what, where: calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 260 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the calf dies, the boy finds a princess» 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

Sentence 1: Did yer stepdad no' say he'd kill the calf?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stepdad	aux
2	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 stepdad	nmod:poss
3	stepdad	stepda	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 say	det
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stepdad	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kill	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 calf	det
11	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kill	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stepdad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stepda	past · do-support							tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kill	would	he	the calf					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Naw way!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	naw	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Naw, he only said it once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Naw	it				once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Naw, he said he'd keep the calf in the byre all winter long

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calf	det
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 byre	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 byre	det
12	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 winter	det
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Naw						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	would	Naw	the calf		the byre	winter	long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent calf=Theme in byre=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, if it came in the hoose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hoose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hoose	det
8	hoose	hoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	it			the hoose			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hoose=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, but he didnae mean it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 mean	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
5	didnae	didnae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 mean	dep
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	infinitive	he	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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