--- title: Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots? Like, a proper mob? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: th… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots? Like, a proper mob? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t4/) [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: th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th… Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots? Like, a proper mob? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many blokes · **What happens:** wait, end up This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» 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/1279-pg3454-part4/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t4:1 # text = Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 blokes bloke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **end up** | past | many blokes | | | | | with black spots | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:* Like, a proper mob? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t4:2 # text = Like, a proper mob? 1 Like like INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mob mob NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} fifteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t4:o1:1 # text = fifteen 1 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} about twenty of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t4:o2:1 # text = about twenty of them 1 about about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t4:o3:1 # text = twenty 1 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} twenty-odd men in the hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t4:o4:1 # text = twenty-odd men in the hall 1 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` 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. 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