Test 3 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

What did the lass keep yelling about on the scaffold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lass · What happens: do, keep, yell · To what, where: scaffold

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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 lass	det
4	lass	las	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 yelling	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 scaffold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scaffold	det
10	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	keep	present	the lass			tree rules
3	yell speech: express	gerund	the lass not said here	the scaffold	about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

her mum and dad and loads of family coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dad	cc
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 loads	cc
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mum	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 family	case
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loads	nmod
9	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 family	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	family not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

her mum and dad and loads of family and her sweetheart coming to save her from the rope

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dad	cc
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 loads	cc
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mum	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 family	case
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loads	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sweetheart	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sweetheart	nmod:poss
11	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	conj
12	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 mum	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 save	mark
14	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 coming	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 save	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 rope	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rope	det
18	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund							tree rules
2	save	to-infinitive		her = she		the rope			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from rope=Source

Option 3

her mum and dad and all her aunties and uncles coming down the road soon

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dad	cc
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 aunties	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 aunties	det:predet
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 aunties	nmod:poss
8	aunties	auntie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mum	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 uncles	cc
10	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 aunties	conj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 aunties	acl
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 road	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	gerund	her aunties and uncles not said here	the road				soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme

Option 4

her gran and her cousins to save her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gran	nmod:poss
2	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cousins	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cousins	nmod:poss
5	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gran	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive	her gran and her cousins	her = she					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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