Test 9 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…
Whose daughter got rescued, bairn, the King o' Scotland's or the King o' Ireland's?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: rescue · To what, where: daughter
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rescued | aux:pass |
| 4 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bairn | punct |
| 6 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rescued | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Scotland | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 o | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 o | compound |
| 10 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Scotland | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 o | case |
| 12 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bairn | nmod |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Scotland | case |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 o | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 o | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 o | compound |
| 17 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bairn | conj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ireland | punct |
| 19 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 o | appos |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Ireland | case |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rescued | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | past · passive | daughter | 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
King Robert's wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Robert | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Robert | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
King Malcolm's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Malcolm | Malcolm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 King | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The king's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The King o' Ireland's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 o | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 o | compound |
| 3 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ireland | punct |
| 5 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 o | appos |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ireland | case |
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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