Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the pri…

Naw, be honest, whit's the giant's daughter's big plan for the prince at midnight?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Naw, honest whit · What happens: be · To what, where: big plan

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 honest	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 honest	cop
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whit	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 honest	punct
6	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 plan	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 giant	case
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 daughter	case
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plan	amod
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 prince	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prince	det
17	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 midnight	case
19	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prince	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	Naw					honest property	tree rules
2	is a	present	honest whit	the giant's daughter's big plan				for the prince at midnight	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 · ✓ the right answer

tae warn him and get him tae refuse her sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warn	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 get	cc
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 warn	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	obj
7	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 refuse	mark
8	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sisters	nmod:poss
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 refuse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	imperative			him = he	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	get	infinitive		him = he		tree rules
3	refuse	infinitive	him = he not said here	her sisters		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme

Option 2

tae kidnap him and keep him in the byre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 kidnap	mark
2	kidnap	kidnap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kidnap	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 kidnap	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 byre	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 byre	det
9	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kidnap	imperative		him = he					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	keep	infinitive		him = he		the byre			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in byre=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

tae help him marry her ain sister instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
6	ain	ain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative		him = he					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	marry	infinitive	him = he not said here	her ain sister				instead property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient

Option 4

tae run hame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 run	mark
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hame	hame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 run	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative		hame					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hame=Trajectory

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