Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

Whit did the king say he'd gie Ian, like, the best thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, king · What happens: do, say, gie · To what, where: Ian · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» 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 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gie	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 gie	aux
8	gie	gie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gie	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	9 Ian	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Ian	appos
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gie	would	king	Ian	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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the most precious thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 precious	advmod
3	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gold	nmod:poss
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a fine horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the finest horse o the lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 lot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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