Test 6 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Whit did the Etin do tae the first lad, hen, when he couldnae answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, Etin · What happens: tae, couldnae, answer · To what, where: first lad

This is test 6 · ★ 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	6 tae	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tae	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Etin	det
4	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tae	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tae	aux
6	tae	tae	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 lad	amod
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tae	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hen	punct
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lad	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 couldnae	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 couldnae	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 couldnae	nsubj
15	couldnae	couldnae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tae	conj
16	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 couldnae	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tae	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tae	past · do-support	Whit	the first lad and hen	tree rules
2	couldnae	past	Etin		tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	infinitive	Etin not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Killed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Locked him in a dungeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Locked	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dungeon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dungeon	det
5	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past		him = he		a dungeon			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Turned him tae dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turned	obj
3	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	4 dust	compound
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Turned him intae stane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turned	obj
3	intae	intae	X	Foreign=Yes	4 stane	dep
4	stane	stane	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		him = he					tree rules
2	stane	infinitive							tree rules

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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