Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

Whit did Malcolm dae tae hide his wean?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1994 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden girl is found by a lost hunter, and the king sets out to take her» 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	Malcolm	Malcolm	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	3 Malcolm	dep
5	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 hide	mark
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wean	nmod:poss
8	wean	wean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hide	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	Malcolm	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malcolm=Eventuality
2	hide	infinitive	Whit not said here		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wean	infinitive	Whit not said here		vn free-10.6.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer

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

hid her in a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hid	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cave	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past		her = she		a cave			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in cave=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

took her tae a hill far awa wi her nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 took	obj
3	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	5 hill	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obl
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 awa	advmod
7	awa	awa	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obl
8	wi	wi	ADP	_	10 nurse	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nurse	nmod:poss
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past			her = she			tae a hill; wi her nurse; awa obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

Option 3

pit her oot the hoose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pit	pit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 oot	nmod:poss
3	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pit	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hoose	det
5	hoose	hoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pit	imperative	you not said here	her oot					tree rules

Option 4

sent her tae a hill wi the nurse an men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	5 hill	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl
6	wi	wi	ADP	_	8 nurse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nurse	det
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 men	det
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		a men	her = she			tae a hill; wi the nurse	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination man=Theme

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