Test 1 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

Did the bogles even notice the lad was there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bogles, lad · What happens: notice, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bogles	det
3	bogles	bogle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 there	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 notice	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past · do-support	the bogles						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the lad					there property	tree rules

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

nah, they were too busy kicking the ball about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 busy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 busy	advmod
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 busy	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kicking	obj
10	about	about	ADV	_	7 kicking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					busy property	tree rules
2	kick	gerund	they not said here	the ball				about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient

Option 2

no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

yeah, they spotted him and waved right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 spotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spotted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	nsubj
4	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waved	cc
7	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spotted	conj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 waved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	they		him = he				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
2	wave	past	they not said here					away property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

aye, they kept looking at him the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they						tree rules
2	look	gerund	they not said here				time	at him = he	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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