--- title: Wha's the Shifty Lad's big plan, like, when he's grown? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Wha's the Shifty Lad's big plan, like, when he's grown? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become… Wha's the Shifty Lad's big plan, like, when he's grown? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wha · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** big plan, Wha This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1277-pg3454-part2/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t1:1 # text = Wha's the Shifty Lad's big plan, like, when he's grown? 1 Wha Wha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Shifty shifty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Lad Lad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 like like INTJ UH _ 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Wha | the Shifty Lad's big plan | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present · passive | | Wha | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} be a farmer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t1:o1:1 # text = be a farmer 1 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | infinitive | a farmer | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} go to school ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t1:o2:1 # text = go to school 1 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | school | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} be a thief ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t1:o3:1 # text = be a thief 1 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | infinitive | a thief | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} a priest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t1:o4:1 # text = a priest 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. - ← previous: [The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad,…, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/e4/) - next →: [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa…, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t2/) - ↑ back to [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/)