Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the pri…

Yo, when the giant tested the wee boy, whit did he say his da would skelp wi the rod?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant, whit, da · What happens: test, say, skelp · To what, where: wee boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1322 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the prince and the giant's daughter escape on the blue-grey mare» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 tested	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tested	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tested	nsubj
6	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tested	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
11	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tested	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 da	nmod:poss
16	da	da	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skelp	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 skelp	aux
18	skelp	skelp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 say	ccomp
19	wi	wi	ADP	_	21 rod	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rod	det
21	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skelp	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tested	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	test	past	the giant	the wee boy		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	whit			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	skelp	would	whit's da		wi the rod	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

dugs and cats that broke the glasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dugs	dug	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broke	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cats	cc
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dugs	conj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glasses	det
7	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	dugs and cats	the glasses					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient

Option 2

his belt

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 belt	nmod:poss
2	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

any dugs and cats that broke the glasses in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 dugs	det
2	dugs	dug	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broke	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cats	cc
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dugs	conj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glasses	det
8	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broke	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	any dugs and cats	the glasses		the house			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient

Option 4

the cats that scratched the bairns sore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cats	det
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scratched	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 scratched	nsubj
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bairns	det
6	bairns	bairn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scratched	obj
7	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scratched	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	the cats	the bairns				sore property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bairn=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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