Test 5 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

Whit did the raven say tae tell fowk aboot where ye came fae?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, ye · What happens: say, tell, come · To what, where: fowk aboot, fae · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	5 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	xcomp
8	fowk	fowk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 aboot	compound
9	aboot	aboot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 came	advmod
11	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 aboot	acl:relcl
13	fae	fae	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Whit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Whit not said here	fowk aboot	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aboot=Recipient
3	come	past	ye	fae	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fae=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 · ← Mova's choice

say ye're fae ahint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 ahint	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ahint	cop
4	fae	fae	X	_	5 ahint	compound
5	ahint	ahint	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	ye	fae ahint					tree rules

Option 2

say ye came fae

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 say	ccomp
4	fae	fae	X	Foreign=Yes	3 came	dep

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	ye						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

say ye came fae ahint ye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 say	ccomp
4	fae	fae	X	_	5 ahint	compound
5	ahint	ahint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
6	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 ahint	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	ye	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ahint		ye	tree rules

Option 4

say naething ava

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	naething	naething	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ava	compound
3	ava	ava	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	naething ava					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ava=Topic

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