Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Whit did the Thief pit under the witches' heids?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: Thief pit, heids

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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	5 pit	det
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pit	compound
5	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	10 heids	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witches	det
8	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heids	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 witches	case
10	heids	heid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the Thief pit		the witches's heids			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Eventuality

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

Bits o cloth fae the bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fae	nsubj
2	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 cloth	case
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bits	nmod
4	fae	fae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fae	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fae	present	Bits of cloth	the bag					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pieces o turf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 turf	case
3	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pieces	nmod

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

Option 3

Dry leaves an' bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bark	det
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bark	punct
5	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present		a bark					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme

Option 4

Stanes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stanes	Stanes	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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