Test 13 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

Wis there any curse, or was it just sweet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: curse · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Wis	Wis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Wis	expl
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 curse	det
4	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wis	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sweet	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 sweet	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sweet	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sweet	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 sweet	advmod
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wis	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	curse					sweet 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 mither gave a curse wi' the cake

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	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wi	det
5	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wi	compound
6	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 cake	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cake	det
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wi	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the mither	a curse wi and the cake					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wi=Theme

Option 2

The widow gave a kiss wi' the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 widow	det
2	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wi	det
5	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wi	compound
6	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 bread	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bread	det
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wi	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the widow	a kiss wi and the bread					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wi=Theme

Option 3

The bairn gave a laugh at the cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bairn	det
2	bairn	bairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 laugh	det
5	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 cake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cake	det
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the bairn	a laugh		the cake			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme at cake=Asset

Option 4

The mither gave a curse wi' the cake and the bairns turned tae stane

The tree, 14 words

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	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wi	det
5	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wi	compound
6	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 cake	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cake	det
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wi	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bairns	det
12	bairns	bairn	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
14	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	15 stane	mark
15	stane	stane	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	past	the mither	a curse wi and the cake	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wi=Theme
2	turn	past	the bairns		tree rules
3	stane	infinitive	the bairns not said here		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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