Test 1 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Ye ken the knife thing, so whit did the big brither say it would show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ye, whit, big brither · What happens: ken, do, say, show · To what, where: knife thing, big brither · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1503 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest brother gets a magic wand, beats the Etin and frees the king's daughter» 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	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 ken	nsubj
2	ken	ken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ken	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 did	advmod
8	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ken	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brither	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brither	amod
12	brither	brither	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 brither	acl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 show	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 show	aux
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ken	past	Ye	the knife thing	tree rules
2	do	past	whit	the big brither	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brither=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	the big brither not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	show	would	whit		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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

If the owner was still well and safe at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 safe	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safe	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 safe	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 safe	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 safe	cc
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the owner			home		safe, well property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

If the owner was still well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 still	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 still	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 still	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 still	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the owner					still, well property	tree rules

Option 3

If the owner was still well, or had fallen sick in the far glen

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 well	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 well	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 well	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fallen	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fallen	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 fallen	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fallen	aux
10	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fallen	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 glen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glen	det
14	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 glen	amod
15	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fallen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the owner				still	well property	tree rules
2	fall	past · perfect				the far glen		sick property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in glen=Location

Option 4

Whether the man was still alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 alive	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alive	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man				still	alive property	tree rules

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