Test 9 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

Whit did the washerwife's dochter dae wi the knight's claes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: dochter

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 washerwife	det
4	washerwife	washerwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dochter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 washerwife	case
6	dochter	dochter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 dochter	dep
8	wi	wi	ADP	_	12 claes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knight	det
10	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claes	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 knight	case
12	claes	clae	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the washerwife's dochter				wi the knight's claes	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dochter=Eventuality

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

Tried tae wash the blood oot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	3 wash	mark
3	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tried	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oot	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oot	compound
6	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	participle							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wash not said to happen	infinitive		the blood oot					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oot=Patient

Option 2

Tried tae wash the blood oot o' them but couldnae get it tae shift

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wash	advcl
2	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	3 wash	mark
3	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 o	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 o	compound
6	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 o	compound
7	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wash	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 o	punct
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wash	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
11	couldnae	couldnae	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 wash	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obj
14	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	15 shift	compound
15	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	try	participle		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	wash	imperative	the blood oot o	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent o=Beneficiary they=Patient
3	get	infinitive	o	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary shift=Theme

Option 3

Stood there scrubbin awa at the claes but the blood wouldnae come oot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Stood	advmod
3	scrubbin	scrubbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 awa	compound
4	awa	awa	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stood	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 claes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claes	det
7	claes	clae	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stood	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 blood	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blood	det
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claes	nmod
11	wouldnae	wouldnae	X	Foreign=Yes	10 blood	dep
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stood	conj
13	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		scrubbin awa		the claes the blood; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent awa=Theme at clae=Destination
2	come	infinitive		oot					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oot=Theme

Option 4

Tried tae dry them oot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	3 dry	mark
3	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tried	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dry	obj
5	oot	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dry not said to happen	infinitive		them = they					tree rules

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