Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…
Whit made the door go shriek, did it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, door · What happens: make, go, do · To what, where: door, shriek
This is test 4 · ★ 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 6 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Whit | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the door not said here | shriek | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shriek=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Whit not said here | shriek | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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 wee metal tip o the scabbard, like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tip | det |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tip | amod |
| 3 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tip | compound |
| 4 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 scabbard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scabbard | det |
| 7 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tip | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tip | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 tip | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the bottom bit o the sword's sheath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 2 | bottom | bottom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bit | amod |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 sheath | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 8 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the point o the blade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 point | det |
| 2 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 blade | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blade | det |
| 5 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 point | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | the blade | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the tip o the sheath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tip | det |
| 2 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 sheath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sheath | det |
| 5 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tip | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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