Test 5 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

What was the wee boy like at bedtime?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wee boy · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bedtime	case
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 bedtime	case
8	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wee boy like bedtime						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

wee and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 quiet	cc
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wee	conj

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

Option 2

greetin' and clingin' tae his mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	greetin	greetin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 greetin	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 clingin	cc
4	clingin	clingin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 greetin	conj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 clingin	punct
6	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	8 mum	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 greetin	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

dead stubborn, he just wouldnae budge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stubborn	amod
2	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 budge	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stubborn	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 budge	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 budge	advmod
6	wouldnae	wouldnae	X	_	7 budge	compound
7	budge	budge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

always fussin' and wantin' a story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 fussin	advmod
2	fussin	fussin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 fussin	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wantin	cc
5	wantin	wantin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fussin	conj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 story	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wantin	conj

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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