Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Whit did the Etin's cry mean, Jenny, when it said it smelt an earthly man?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, cry, Etin · What happens: do, mean, say, smelt, cry · To what, where: cry, earthly man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	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	4 Etin	det
4	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cry	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Etin	case
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Jenny	punct
9	Jenny	Jenny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cry	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smelt	nsubj
15	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smelt	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the Etin's cry	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Eventuality
2	mean	present	the Etin's cry not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Whit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	smelt	past	Whit	a earthly man	tree rules
5	cry		the Etin		nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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

It could smell a living human being nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 human	det
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 human	amod
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	obj
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 nearby	cop
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	3 smell	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	could	It	a living human					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer human=Stimulus
2	is	gerund						nearby property	tree rules

Option 2

It could smell a real living human in the room with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 room	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
6	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	could	It	a real living human room				with room	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It smelt a dead auld man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelt	nsubj
2	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
5	auld	auld	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	It	a dead auld man					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could smell a living human

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 living	det
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	obj
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	could	It	a living				human property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus

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