Test 4 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…
Who was the lad's main mate in this bit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: main mate, bit
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mate | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lad | det |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 lad | case |
| 6 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mate | amod |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bit | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mate | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the lad's main mate | this bit | 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
his dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nobody, it was just him and the bogles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 him | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nobody | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 him | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 him | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 him | advmod |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bogles | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bogles | det |
| 9 | bogles | bogle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 him | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | nobody | him = he | tree rules |
Option 3
his wee brother and the family cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cat | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cat | compound |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his pal Davie from the next farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pal | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pal | pal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Davie | Davie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pal | appos |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 farm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farm | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 farm | amod |
| 7 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pal | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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