Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…
Whit did Johnny ca his auld sword?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, Johnny · What happens: do, sword
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | 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 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sword | aux |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sword | amod |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sword | can | Johnny | 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
An auld spear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spear | det |
| 2 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spear | amod |
| 3 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A rusty spear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spear | det |
| 2 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spear | amod |
| 3 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A roosty sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | roosty | roosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A roosty auld sword fae his faither
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sword | det |
| 2 | roosty | roosty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sword | compound |
| 3 | auld | auld | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sword | amod |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | fae | fae | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 sword | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 faither | nmod:poss |
| 7 | faither | faither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fae | obj |
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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