Test 3 · A stranger's story
Glasgow man: «Here, wee man, a fiver to carry this bag to that car.» What is «wee man»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: bag, car
This is test 3 of lesson 446 «A stranger's story» of the everyday 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: Glasgow man: «Here, wee man, a fiver to carry this bag to that car.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 man | compound |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Here | punct |
| 5 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 man | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 7 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fiver | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fiver | det |
| 11 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | appos |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fiver | acl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 bag | det |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 car | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 car | det |
| 18 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | this bag | that car | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to car=Destination |
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: What is «wee man»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 4 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | appos |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Old friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friend | amod |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Rich man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | amod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Tall man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | amod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Little boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boy | amod |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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