Test 4 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl give…

Was the goose-boy gig lowkey a disguise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy gig · What happens: be, lowkey · To what, where: boy gig, disguise

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 681 «Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl gives the prince a castle, bread and a battle win» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gig	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gig	det
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 goose	punct
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gig	compound
6	gig	gig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lowkey	nsubj
7	lowkey	lowkey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 disguise	det
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lowkey	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the boy gig					tree rules
2	lowkey	past	the boy gig	a disguise					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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was actually a real goose-boy from the village who got sick of the geese

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 boy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 boy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 boy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
8	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 goose	punct
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 village	acl:relcl
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 got	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 geese	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 geese	det
19	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a real goose boy		the village		actually property	tree rules
2	get	past	the village					sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he got mucky so nobody knew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 knew	advmod
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					mucky property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	past	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, he was just a bit dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 dirty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dirty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dirty	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 dirty	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dirty	obl:unmarked
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					a bit obl:unmarked; dirty property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he wore a fake beard too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beard	det
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 wore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he	a fake beard					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent beard=Source

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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