Test 10 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

Was the lady mental for crossing her foot ower the other?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: be, cross · To what, where: foot ower

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mental	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mental	nsubj
4	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 crossing	mark
6	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mental	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ower	nmod:poss
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ower	compound
9	ower	ower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crossing	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crossing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lady					mental property	tree rules
2	cross	gerund	the lady not said here	her foot ower					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

Aye, she was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Naw, she was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Naw					sad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, she was that happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 happy	mark
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					happy property	tree rules

Option 4

Naw, she was that cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 cross	det
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Naw	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Naw	that cross					tree rules

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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