Test 13 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Did the lad run away fae the beasts, Jamie, or walk right through them, eh?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lad, fae · What happens: run away, beast, walk

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lad	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	fae	fae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 beasts	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beasts	det
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Jamie	punct
10	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beasts	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walk	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 walk	cc
13	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 run	parataxis
14	right	right	ADV	_	13 walk	advmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walk	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eh	punct
18	eh	eh	INTJ	_	13 walk	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run away	present	the lad	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beast		fae		tree rules
3	walk	infinitive		through beasts = beast; right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory

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

He stopped, turned, and walked right through them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
8	right	right	ADV	_	10 them	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	He		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	turn	past	He not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past	He not said here	through them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory

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

He walked right through them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	He					through them = they; right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory

Option 3

He crept round them quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	obl
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 crept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	He					round them = they; quietly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory

Option 4

He walked right through the middle o' them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 o	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 o	det
6	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 o	amod
7	o	o	NOUN	_	2 walked	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	He	them = they		the middle o		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme through o=Trajectory

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