Test 4 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

Did the knight actually wake up for the damsel, or was he just a sleepy bam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knight, he · What happens: do, wake up, be · To what, where: knight, sleepy bam

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 wake	advmod
5	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knight	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 damsel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 damsel	det
9	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bam	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 bam	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bam	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bam	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 bam	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bam	det
16	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bam	amod
17	bam	bam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the knight		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality
2	wake up	present	the knight not said here		for the damsel; actually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	he	a sleepy bam		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

He never woke

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	3 woke	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 woke	advmod
3	woke	wake	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	not wake	past	He						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He woke up when he heard her

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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 woke	compound:prt
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	He						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hear	past	he	her = she					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3

Naw, he slept on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slept	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep on	past	Naw						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He woke when she sang

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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 sang	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	He						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past	she						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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