Test 13 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

How old was the boy in the North Countrie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old boy, North Countrie

This is test 13 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Countrie	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Countrie	det
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Countrie	compound
9	Countrie	Countrie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old boy		the North Countrie			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

just six, a wee nipper, who still slept in his mother's bed each night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nipper	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nipper	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nipper	det
5	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nipper	amod
6	nipper	nipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slept	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 slept	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 slept	advmod
10	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nipper	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 bed	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mother	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slept	obl
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	a wee nipper			his mother's bed	still; night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

just six, a wee nipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nipper	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nipper	det
5	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nipper	amod
6	nipper	nipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 six	conj

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

Option 3

just six years old, a wee nipper who was far too young to be out at night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	obl:unmarked
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nipper	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nipper	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nipper	det
7	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nipper	amod
8	nipper	nipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 young	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 young	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 young	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 young	advmod
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nipper	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	18 night	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 night	cop
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 be	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 young	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a old wee nipper					far, young property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	a old wee nipper not said here				at night		tree rules

Option 4

seven years and a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bit	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	conj

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

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