Test 13 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

Whit did the rebels think Johnny wis?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, rebels · What happens: do, think · To what, where: Johnny wis

This is test 13 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rebels	det
4	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wis	compound
7	wis	wi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit						tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	the rebels	Johnny wis					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wi=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

A mighty giant-killer come tae hang every one of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 killer	det
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 killer	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killer	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 giant	punct
5	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 hang	mark
8	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a mighty giant killer						tree rules
2	hang	infinitive	a mighty giant killer not said here	every one of them					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A giant-killer come tae hang them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 killer	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 killer	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 giant	punct
4	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	7 hang	mark
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a giant killer						tree rules
2	hang	infinitive	a giant killer not said here	them = they					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A giant-killing tailor come tae hang them all fae the toun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 killing	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 giant	punct
4	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tailor	amod
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 hang	mark
8	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hang	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 toun	det
11	fae	fae	X	_	13 toun	compound
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 toun	det
13	toun	toun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	kill	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	present	a killing tailor		tree rules
3	hang	infinitive	a killing tailor not said here	them = they	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Patient toun=Result

Option 4

A giant wi a rope tae hang them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wi	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wi	amod
3	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rope	det
5	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wi	nmod:unmarked
6	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	7 hang	mark
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wi	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	infinitive	a giant wi a rope not said here	them = they					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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