Test 1 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…
Yo, did the lady's bull actually fight the devil, or is that just a wee story?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, fight, be · To what, where: bull, devil, wee story
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1502 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady's wanderings and the Red Etin's beginning: the lady wins the knight back and the Red Etin's tale starts» 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 | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bull | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 lady | case |
| 7 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 fight | advmod |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 devil | det |
| 11 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 story | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 story | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 story | cop |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 story | mark |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 story | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 18 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 story | amod |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the lady's bull | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fight | present | the devil | actually property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a wee story | 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
He fought the deil, aye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 deil | det |
| 4 | deil | deil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 aye | punct |
| 6 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 2 fought | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | He | the deil | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deil=Co-Agent |
Option 2
He didnae fight the deil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | didnae | didnae | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 fight | dep |
| 3 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deil | det |
| 5 | deil | deil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fight | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | infinitive | He | the deil | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deil=Co-Agent |
Option 3
Naw, he never fought the deil, he just sat in the glen wi' the lady
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 fought | advmod |
| 5 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deil | det |
| 7 | deil | deil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 sat | advmod |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fought | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wi | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wi | det |
| 14 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wi | compound |
| 15 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 lady | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wi | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight | past | Naw | the deil | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deil=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Naw | the glen wi and the lady | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wi=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
He fought the big laird, aye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 laird | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laird | amod |
| 5 | laird | laird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 aye | punct |
| 7 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 2 fought | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | He | the big laird | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laird=Co-Agent |
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