Test 12 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…
Whit did the youngest brither pick, son, the hale cake wi' the curse or the half wi' the blessing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: youngest brither pick
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | 6 pick | det |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 pick | amod |
| 5 | brither | brither | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pick | amod |
| 6 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wi | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wi | det |
| 11 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wi | amod |
| 12 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wi | compound |
| 13 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | conj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 curse | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 curse | det |
| 16 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wi | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 wi | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wi | det |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 wi | compound |
| 20 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 curse | conj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 blessing | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blessing | det |
| 23 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wi | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | the youngest brither pick and the hale cake wi and the curse or the half wi and the blessing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pick=Eventuality |
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 whole wi' the curse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wi | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wi | amod |
| 3 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 curse | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 curse | det |
| 6 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wi | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The half wi' the blessing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wi | det |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 wi | compound |
| 3 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 blessing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blessing | det |
| 6 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wi | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The half wi' the blessing an' the stale bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wi | det |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 wi | compound |
| 3 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 blessing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blessing | det |
| 6 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wi | conj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bread | det |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 bread | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bread | det |
| 10 | stale | stale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bread | amod |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blessing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The hale cake wi' the curse on it, as well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wi | det |
| 2 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wi | amod |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wi | compound |
| 4 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 curse | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 curse | det |
| 7 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wi | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 curse | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 as | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 wi | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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