Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…
Whit's a bairn doing in the Red Etin tale, just wondering?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, bairn · What happens: be, do, wonder · To what, where: bairn, Etin tale
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bairn | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bairn | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bairn | det |
| 4 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bairn | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tale | det |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Etin | flat |
| 9 | Etin | Etin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | compound |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wondering | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 wondering | advmod |
| 13 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 doing | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bairn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Whit | a bairn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | a bairn not said here | the Etin tale | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | a bairn not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Two widows, a cake, and a bairn wha's aw fingers were bruised
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 widows | nummod |
| 2 | widows | widow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cake | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cake | det |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 widows | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bruised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bruised | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wha | det |
| 9 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wha | compound |
| 10 | wha | wha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 wha | case |
| 12 | aw | aw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fingers | amod |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bruised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bruised | aux:pass |
| 15 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 widows | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bruise | past · passive | Two widows and a cake not said here | a bairn wha's aw fingers | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
A knight and a stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stone | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two dogs and a ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dogs | nummod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ring | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dogs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Two widows and a cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 widows | nummod |
| 2 | widows | widow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cake | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cake | det |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 widows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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