Test 10 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

Dinnae say, did the giants win?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, giants · What happens: say, win · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 246 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king» 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	Dinnae	Dinnae	X	Foreign=Yes	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 win	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 win	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giants	det
6	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 win	nsubj
7	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	past · do-support	the giants						vn succeed-74-2 «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

Yes, they beat him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	they	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Johnny chopped them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	Johnny	them = they					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

No, Johnny chopped them all up with a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 chopped	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sword	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sword	det
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past	Johnny	them = they				with a sword	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument

Option 4

Aye, the giants won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giants	det
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 won	nsubj
5	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the giants						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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