Test 11 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

Whit did the lassie say she'd dae tae the smith?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, lassie · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lassie	det
4	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 'd	nsubj
7	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	7 'd	dep
9	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	11 smith	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 smith	det
11	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 'd	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the lassie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

burn him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hang him on the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hang	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the tree			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on tree=Destination

Option 3

hang him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

bury him in the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bury	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the wood			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wood=Destination

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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