Test 12 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

Whit happened tae the giants' heids, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: happen

This is test 12 · ★ 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 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	7 heids	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giants	det
5	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heids	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 giants	case
7	heids	heid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	2 happened	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Whit					tae the giants's heids	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

Johnny burned them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	Johnny	them = they					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Johnny cut them aff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	obj
4	aff	aff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	Johnny	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary aff=Product

Option 3

He cut them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	He	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product

Option 4

He chopped them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	nsubj
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 chopped	compound:prt

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

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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