Test 10 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

Whit did the old wife gie the knight tae make him sleep, mental?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, old wife · What happens: do, gie, make, sleep · To what, where: knight, Whit

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	5 wife	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gie	nsubj
6	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gie	obj
9	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gie	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mental	punct
14	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sleep	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gie	present	the old wife	the knight	tree rules
3	make	infinitive	the old wife not said here	Whit	tree rules
4	sleep	infinitive	Whit not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

A bitter tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tea	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tea	amod
3	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A warm drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A sleepy drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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