Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

How did the fairy child feel about her burnt foot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy child · What happens: feel

This is test 8 · ★ 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	6 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 foot	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 foot	nmod:poss
9	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foot	amod
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the fairy child					about child's burnt foot	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about foot=Location

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

she was gutted, she wailed and squealed the whole night through the fairy hill

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gutted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	aux:pass
3	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wailed	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wailed	nsubj
6	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 squealed	cc
8	squealed	squeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wailed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squealed	obl:unmarked
12	through	through	ADP	_	15 hill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hill	compound
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		she			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	wail	past	she				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	squeal	past	she not said here		the fairy hill	night	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hill=Location

Option 2

she sulked in the corner all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sulked	nsubj
2	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 corner	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corner	det
5	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sulked	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sulked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past	she			the corner	night		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

she was gutted and squealed the house down and everyone in the glen heard her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gutted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	aux:pass
3	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 squealed	cc
5	squealed	squeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squealed	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	5 squealed	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 heard	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 glen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glen	det
13	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everyone	nmod
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 squealed	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		she	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	squeal down	past		the house	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	hear	past	everyone	her = she	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she was gutted and squealed the house down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gutted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	aux:pass
3	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 squealed	cc
5	squealed	squeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gutted	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squealed	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	5 squealed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		she					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	squeal down	past		the house					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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