Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Whit wis the black man in the vault reely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: wi · To what, where: black man, vault

This is test 7 · ★ 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 wis	nsubj
2	wis	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wis	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 vault	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vault	det
8	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wis	obl
9	reely	reely	ADV	_	2 wis	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wi	present	Whit	the black man		the vault		reely property	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 clergyman, no the bishop, wha'd come tae rob the grave first

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clergyman	det
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bishop	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bishop	discourse
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bishop	det
6	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clergyman	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wha	punct
8	wha	wha	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bishop	conj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	12 rob	mark
12	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grave	det
14	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rob	obj
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 rob	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	a clergyman						tree rules
2	rob	infinitive	a clergyman not said here	the grave				first property	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Source

Option 2

A monk fae the abbey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fae	nsubj
3	fae	fae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 abbey	det
5	abbey	abbey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fae	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fae	past	a monk	the abbey					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A clergyman, no the bishop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clergyman	det
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bishop	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bishop	discourse
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bishop	det
6	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clergyman	appos

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

Option 4

Just a dead beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 beggar	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beggar	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beggar	amod
4	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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