Test 5 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…
Whit did the auld fairy wifie gie him, mate, when he shared his bannock?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, auld fairy wifie · What happens: do, gie, share · To what, where: auld fairy wifie, Whit, bannock
This is test 5 · ★ 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 wifie | det |
| 4 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wifie | amod |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wifie | compound |
| 6 | wifie | wifie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | gie | gie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wifie | acl:relcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gie | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wifie | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shared | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 shared | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shared | nsubj |
| 14 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wifie | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bannock | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shared | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | the auld fairy wifie and mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wifie=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | gie | present | the auld fairy wifie and mate not said here | Whit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | share | past | Whit | Whit's bannock | tree rules |
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
A magic wand that could kill beasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wand | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wand | amod |
| 3 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | aux |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wand | acl:relcl |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | could | a magic wand | beasts | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
Option 2
A wand wi' a magic bit on the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wi | det |
| 2 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wi | compound |
| 3 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wi | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A magical wand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wand | det |
| 2 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wand | amod |
| 3 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A magic stane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stane | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stane | compound |
| 3 | stane | stane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1503-pg503-part90/t5/