Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Whit did the General threaten her wi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, General · What happens: do, threaten · To what, where: wi

This is test 6 · ★ 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 General	det
4	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threaten	nsubj
5	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	parataxis
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wi	nmod:poss
7	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threaten	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	threaten	infinitive	the General	General's wi					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wi=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

tae kill her if she didnae lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kill	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 lie	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lie	nsubj
6	didnae	didnae	X	_	7 lie	compound
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative		her = she					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	lie a condition, not said to happen		she						tree rules

Option 2

tae banish her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 banish	mark
2	banish	banish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 banish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	imperative		her = she					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

tae kill her if she tellt him a lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kill	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tellt	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tellt	nsubj
6	tellt	tellt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kill	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tellt	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lie	det
9	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tellt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative		her = she					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	tellt a condition, not said to happen	past	she	him = he					tree rules

Option 4

tae shame her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 shame	mark
2	shame	shame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shame	imperative		her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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