Test 7 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

Whit kind of hill couldnae she climb, the glassy wan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kind · What happens: couldnae, climb · To what, where: glassy wan

This is test 7 · ★ 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 couldnae	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hill	case
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	couldnae	couldnae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 climb	nsubj
7	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 couldnae	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wan	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wan	det
10	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wan	amod
11	wan	wan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climb	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 couldnae	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	couldnae	present	whit kind of hill						tree rules
2	climb	infinitive	kind	the glassy wan					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

A hill made o glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hill	acl
4	o	o	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make o	participle	a hill not said here	glass					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product

Option 2

A hill o ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	4 ice	case
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hill	nmod

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

Option 3

A bonnie hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hill	compound
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A muckle hill o' smooth shinin glass that naebody can dae

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	muckle	muckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hill	compound
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 can	nsubj
4	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	8 glass	case
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 glass	punct
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glass	amod
7	shinin	shinin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glass	compound
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hill	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 naebody	det
10	naebody	naebody	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glass	appos
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	11 can	dep

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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