Test 12 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…
Who got the cake, and wis it big or wee?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: get, wi · To what, where: cake
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cake | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wis | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wis | cc |
| 7 | wis | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wis | obj |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wis | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 wee | cc |
| 11 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 big | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the cake | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | wi | present | cake | big property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
The eldest son, a wee cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cake | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 6 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cake | amod |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The mither
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mither | det |
| 2 | mither | mither | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The second son, a big pie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pie | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pie | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pie | amod |
| 7 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The youngest son was given the big cake by the widow in the kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cake | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cake | amod |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 widow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 widow | det |
| 11 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 kitchen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kitchen | det |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the widow | the youngest son | the kitchen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient cake=Theme |
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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