Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…

Explain the significance of the phrase "Woe worth ye, Molly Whuppie".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: explain · To what, where: significance

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 significance	det
3	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Woe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Woe	det
6	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Woe	compound
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Woe	punct
8	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 significance	nmod
9	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Woe	amod
10	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 worth	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Molly	punct
12	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Woe	appos
13	Whuppie	Whuppie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Molly	flat
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Molly	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the significance of the phrase Woe					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent significance=Topic

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 warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a praise for her wit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 praise	det
2	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 wit	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wit	nmod:poss
5	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 praise	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a curse upon her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 curse	det
2	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 curse	nmod

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

Option 4

a blessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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