Test 6 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

Gonnae tell me, what was in the apple that she broke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: tell, be, break · To what, where: me, apple · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Gonnae	Gonnae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 tell	dep
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 apple	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 apple	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 apple	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 apple	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 apple	det
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 broke	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 broke	nsubj
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 apple	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is	past			the apple	tree rules
3	break	past	she			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Dust an' stones, nae bother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stones	nsubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stones	det
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 stones	punct
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bother	punct
6	nae	nae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bother	amod
7	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stones	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Gold and jewels, pure mental, and a wee key tae a locked door in the glen

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 jewels	cc
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gold	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mental	punct
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mental	amod
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gold	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 key	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 key	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 key	det
10	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 key	amod
11	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	conj
12	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	11 key	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 key	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 glen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 glen	det
18	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Gold and jewels richer than the knight's whole castle and aw his lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 richer	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 richer	cc
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 richer	nsubj
4	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	10 castle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knight	det
7	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 castle	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 knight	case
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 castle	amod
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 richer	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 aw	cc
12	aw	aw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 richer	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lands	nmod:poss
14	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 aw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	aw	past		his lands					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gold and jewels, pure mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 jewels	cc
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gold	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mental	punct
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mental	amod
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gold	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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