Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

Whit did the smith want for the iron shoon, ken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: want, ken

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smith	det
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 shoon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoon	det
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoon	compound
9	shoon	shoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ken	punct
11	ken	ken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Whit					for the iron shoon	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	ken	infinitive							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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Seven years' work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 years	case
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work		Seven years						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Three years' work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 years	case
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work		Three years						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Seven years o' hard work on the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 work	case
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 work	punct
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 work	amod
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 farm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farm	det
9	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nmod

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

Option 4

Seven years o' service at his forge an' a' that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 a	obl:unmarked
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 service	case
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 service	punct
5	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 forge	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 forge	nmod:poss
8	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 service	nmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 a	reparandum
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 a	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	root	root
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 a	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 a	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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