Exam question 1 · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

What did the Bull bid the youngest daughter do upon the stone in the dark glen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bull, youngest daughter · What happens: bid, do · To what, where: dark glen

This is exam question 1 of lesson 238 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	5 bid	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bid	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bull	det
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bid	nsubj
5	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
7	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 daughter	amod
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bid	ccomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 glen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 glen	det
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 glen	amod
16	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bid	past · do-support	the Bull						tree rules
2	do	present	the youngest daughter			the dark glen		upon the stone	vn act-114-1 «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

Stand up and wait for him here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stand	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
4	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wait	obl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here			here		for him = he	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sit still and move neither hand nor foot until I have killed the Old One

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Sit	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 move	cc
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
5	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 foot	cc
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	conj
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 killed	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 killed	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	aux
12	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 move	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 One	det
14	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 One	amod
15	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	infinitive	you not said here	neither hand nor foot		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	kill	present · perfect · passive		I		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer one=Result

Option 3

Stay put and hold your tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stay	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hold	cc
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	put	infinitive	you not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	hold	infinitive	you not said here	your tongue	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sit still and move neither hand nor foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Sit	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 move	cc
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
5	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 foot	cc
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	infinitive	you not said here	neither hand nor foot					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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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