--- title: who's the little lad, anyway? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comra… · tree and pragmatics description: who's the little lad, anyway? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1735 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Irishman frees the Princess but is pinned to sleep by the lad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1735-pg640-part59/t10/) [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, Jack and His Comra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1735-pg640-part59/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Ir… who's the little lad, anyway? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** little lad This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1735 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Irishman frees the Princess but is pinned to sleep by the lad» 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/1735-pg640-part59/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t10:1 # text = who's the little lad, anyway? 1 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the little lad | | | | anyway *property* | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} his mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t10:o1:1 # text = his mate 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a servant ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t10:o2:1 # text = a servant 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} fair-haired, comes to make food ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t10:o3:1 # text = fair-haired, comes to make food 1 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | fair haired | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | fair haired *not said here* | food | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | ### Option 4 {#o4} dark-haired, brings the dinner ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t10:o4:1 # text = dark-haired, brings the dinner 1 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | | the dinner | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | **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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