Test 4 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Whit were the beasts like, pal, when the wee lad walked past them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, wee lad · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: beasts

This is test 4 · ★ 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	4 beasts	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beasts	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beasts	det
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	like	like	INTJ	_	7 pal	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beasts	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 walked	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lad	det
11	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lad	amod
12	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beasts	parataxis
14	past	past	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walked	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 beasts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Whit	the beasts				pal nmod	tree rules
2	walk	past	the wee lad					past beasts = beast	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Two heads and four horns each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heads	nummod
2	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 horns	cc
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 horns	nummod
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heads	conj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 heads	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Two heids each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heids	nummod
2	heids	heid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 heids	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Two heids an' four horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heids	nummod
2	heids	heid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horns	det
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 horns	punct
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 horns	nummod
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heids	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Big and green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 green	cc
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Big	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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