Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the pri…

Wait, hou many blackbirds did the prince actually get on the moor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hou · What happens: wait, do, get · To what, where: prince, moor

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	hou	hou	X	Foreign=Yes	6 did	nsubj
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blackbirds	amod
5	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 moor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moor	det
13	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	hou	the prince			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
3	get	present	hou not said here		the moor	actually property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on moor=Source

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

two, baith the same colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct
3	baith	baith	ADV	_	6 colour	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colour	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	amod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 two	conj

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

Option 2

two, baith the same colour, sittin on the auld fir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct
3	baith	baith	ADV	_	6 colour	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colour	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	amod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 two	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sittin	punct
8	sittin	sittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 fir	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fir	det
11	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fir	amod
12	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	nmod

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

Option 3

twa blackbirds, baith the same colour, that he catched wi his bare hands

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blackbirds	compound
2	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 catched	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 baith	punct
4	baith	baith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blackbirds	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blackbirds	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catched	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 catched	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catched	nsubj
11	catched	catche	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	wi	wi	ADP	_	15 hands	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
14	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hands	amod
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 catched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catche	past	twa blackbirds and baith					wi his bare hands	tree rules

Option 4

three, aw o the same colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 aw	punct
3	aw	aw	ADV	_	1 three	advmod
4	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 colour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aw	obl

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

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