Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

Does Childe Rowland just chat tae the herds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Childe · What happens: chat

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chat	aux
2	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chat	nsubj
3	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Childe	flat
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 chat	advmod
5	chat	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	8 herds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herds	det
8	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chat	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	present · do-support	Childe					tae the herds	vn chit_chat-37.6 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, he chats first, then chops their heads off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 chats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chats	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chats	nsubj
4	chats	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 chats	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chops	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 chops	advmod
8	chops	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chats	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chops	obj
11	off	off	ADV	_	8 chops	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	present	he					first property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chop off	present	he not said here	their heads			then	off property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 2

Naw, he chops their heads off with the brand at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chops	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chops	nsubj
4	chops	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chops	obj
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 chops	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 brand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brand	det
10	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chops	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 chops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	present	Naw	their heads				with the brand; off property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with brand=Instrument

Option 3

Aye, he has a wee chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chat	det
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chat	amod
7	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	he	a wee chat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Naw, he chops their heads off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chops	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chops	nsubj
4	chops	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chops	obj
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 chops	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	present	Naw	their heads				off property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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