Test 2 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

Mate, what's the deal wi' the iron shoes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: deal wi

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 wi	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wi	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wi	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wi	compound
7	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 shoes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoes	det
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoes	compound
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wi	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the deal wi and the iron shoes	the deal wi and the iron shoes					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

She got them after seven years wi' the smith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 wi	case
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wi	compound
7	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 wi	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smith	det
10	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She	them = they			after years wi		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary smith=Theme

Option 2

She got them after nine years in the forge, gaun roon the mountain wi' the smith's loon

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forge	det
9	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 roon	punct
11	gaun	gaun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roon	compound
12	roon	roon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forge	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wi	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wi	compound
15	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 loon	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 smith	det
18	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 loon	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 smith	case
20	loon	loon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wi	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She	them = they		the forge and gaun roon	year		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary wi=Theme

Option 3

She got them afore the smith's wife came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	afore	afore	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smith	det
6	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 smith	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	come	past	the smith's wife						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He made them for a horse at the fair

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 fair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fair	det
9	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	them = they		the fair		for a horse	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for horse=Beneficiary

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