Test 3 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Did the old wife in the castle no' help the lad, aye or naw?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, help · To what, where: old wife, lad, castle no

This is test 3 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 help	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 no	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 no	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 no	compound
8	no	no	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obl
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 no	punct
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lad	det
12	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 aye	punct
14	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lad	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 naw	cc
16	naw	naw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lad	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old wife					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	help	present		the lad and aye or naw		the castle no			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Beneficiary

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

Naw, she turned him in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Naw	him = he					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, she helped him oot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	obj
6	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	she	him = he					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She hid him in a hidy-hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 hole	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
6	hidy	hidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hole	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hidy	punct
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	She	him = he		a hidy hole			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in hole=Location

Option 4

Aye, she hid him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she	him = he					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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