Test 6 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

Did she sit still on the stane like she was telt?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: sit, telt · To what, where: stane, she

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 sit	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stane	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stane	det
7	stane	stane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 telt	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 telt	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 telt	aux:pass
11	telt	telt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sit	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	she			the stane	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stane=Location
2	telt	past · passive		she					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

Naw, she stood up and got off the stane and went roon the glen

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 stane	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stane	det
10	stane	stane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
13	roon	roon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glen	det
15	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	Naw			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get off	past	Naw not said here	the stane		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stane=Stimulus
3	go	past	Naw not said here	roon	the glen obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roon=Theme

Option 2

Naw, she stood up and walked aboot the whole glen tae see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
8	aboot	aboot	ADP	_	11 glen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 glen	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 glen	amod
11	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walked	obl
12	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	Naw		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past	Naw not said here	aboot the whole glen	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	Naw not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Naw, she crossed her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crossed	nsubj
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Naw	Naw's feet					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

Option 4

Aye, she stayed on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she			it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

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