Test 9 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…
Whit did the old wife give the knight tae make him sleep?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, old wife · What happens: do, give, make, sleep · To what, where: knight, Whit
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wife | amod |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | tae | tae | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | present | the old wife | the knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the old wife not said here | Whit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | infinitive | Whit not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
A sleeping drink mixed wi' herbs and the grease fae the pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drink | det |
| 2 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drink | amod |
| 3 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fae | nsubj |
| 4 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 herbs | amod |
| 5 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 herbs | compound |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wi | punct |
| 7 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fae | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grease | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grease | det |
| 10 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 herbs | conj |
| 11 | fae | fae | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fae | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fae | past | a sleeping drink | the pot | tree rules |
Option 2
A bitter herb brew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brew | det |
| 2 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brew | amod |
| 3 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brew | compound |
| 4 | brew | brew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A hot dram o' whisky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dram | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dram | amod |
| 3 | dram | dram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whisky | nmod:poss |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 ' | case |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 dram | case |
| 6 | whisky | whisky | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A sleeping drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drink | det |
| 2 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drink | amod |
| 3 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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