Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Whit did the princess say she wisnae gonnae dae till she saw him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, princess · What happens: do, say, see · To what, where: wisnae, Whit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» 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	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wisnae	nsubj
7	wisnae	wisnae	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	obj
8	gonnae	gonnae	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wisnae	flat:foreign
9	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wisnae	flat:foreign
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 saw	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the princess	wisnae	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wisnae=Topic
3	see	past	princess	Whit	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

leave the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shore	det
3	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the shore					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme

Option 2

wait for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					for him = he	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

play on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 play	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play on	imperative	you not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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