Test 10 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…
Who gave the lad the knife, pal, the big brither or the maw?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give · To what, where: lad
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lad | det |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pal | punct |
| 8 | pal | pal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knife | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brither | punct |
| 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 | 6 knife | appos |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 maw | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maw | det |
| 15 | maw | maw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brither | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the lad | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient knife=Theme |
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 big brither an' the maw thegither
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brither | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brither | amod |
| 3 | brither | brither | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thegither | det |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 thegither | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thegither | det |
| 7 | maw | maw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thegither | compound |
| 8 | thegither | thegither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brither | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His big brither
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brither | nmod:poss |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brither | amod |
| 3 | brither | brither | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His wee brither
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brither | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brither | amod |
| 3 | brither | brither | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His big brither, the eldest o' the three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brither | nmod:poss |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brither | amod |
| 3 | brither | brither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 three | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 o | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 o | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 o | amod |
| 7 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brither | appos |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 o | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 three | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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