Test 8 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Ian wasnae scared of the giants, was he?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ian · What happens: wasnae, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wasnae	nsubj
2	wasnae	wasnae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wasnae	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 giants	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giants	det
6	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wasnae	parataxis
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wasnae	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wasnae	past	Ian					scared property	tree rules
2	be	past	Ian						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Option 1

Aye, he was terrified

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 terrified	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					terrified property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, he cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just got on wi it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
7	wi	wi	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he			it			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on it=Source

Option 4

Nah, he ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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