Test 2 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Right, mate, how come the wee lad's can was leaking, but he still got a big cake?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: come, leak, get · To what, where: mate, big cake

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaking	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 lad	case
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 leaking	aux
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 leaking	aux
13	leaking	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 got	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 got	advmod
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cake	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cake	amod
21	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	mate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leak	can · progressive				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	get	past	he	a big cake	still	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

He patched it wi' clay

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 patched	nsubj
2	patched	patch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 patched	obj
4	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clay	compound
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 wi	punct
6	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	patch	past	He	it					tree rules

Option 2

He patched the hole wi' wet clay fae the burn

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 patched	nsubj
2	patched	patch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wi	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wi	compound
5	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patched	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 wi	punct
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clay	amod
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fae	nsubj
9	fae	fae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 patched	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 burn	det
11	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fae	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	patch	past	He	the hole wi					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wi=Destination
2	fae	past	wet clay	the burn					tree rules

Option 3

He mended it wi' tar

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 mended	nsubj
2	mended	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mended	obj
4	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tar	compound
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 wi	punct
6	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mended	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	past	He	it					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He patched it wi' clay and then drank the water

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 patched	nsubj
2	patched	patch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 patched	obj
4	wi	wi	ADP	_	6 clay	case
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 clay	punct
6	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patched	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drank	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 drank	advmod
9	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 patched	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	patch	past	He	it				wi clay	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
2	drink	past	He not said here	the water			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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