Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

Whit did the lad use tae chop aff the Etin's heads, dude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: use · To what, where: tae chop aff

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 use	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 aff	compound
7	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 aff	compound
8	aff	aff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Etin	det
10	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 heads	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Etin	case
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dude	punct
14	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heads	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	Whit	tae chop aff					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 saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saw	det
2	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 axe	det
2	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pin	det
2	pin	pin	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.

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