Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

Whit did the giant want the byre roof covered wi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, giant · What happens: do, want, cover · To what, where: byre roof

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» 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 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roof	det
7	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roof	compound
8	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wi	amod
10	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roof	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit		tree rules
2	want	present	the giant	the byre roof and covered wi	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot roof=Theme
3	cover	participle			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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

birds' down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 down	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	1 birds	advmod

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

Option 2

bark and reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 reeds	cc
3	reeds	reed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 bark	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reed	present							tree rules

Option 3

the saft down o a thoosand birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saft	det
2	saft	saft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 saft	compound:prt
4	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 birds	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 birds	det
6	thoosand	thoosand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 birds	compound
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saft	nmod

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

Option 4

feathers fae the magpie's nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fae	nsubj
2	fae	fae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magpie	det
4	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nest	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 magpie	case
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fae	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fae	present	feathers	the magpie's nest					tree rules

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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