Test 2 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

Whit wis the wee tailor's job afore he went aff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, wee tailor · What happens: wi, go, job · To what, where: job, aff

This is test 2 · ★ 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 wis	nsubj
2	wis	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tailor	amod
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 job	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 tailor	case
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wis	obj
8	afore	afore	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wis	advcl
11	aff	aff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wi	present	Whit	the wee tailor's job	tree rules
2	go	past	Whit	aff	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aff=Theme
3	job		the wee tailor		nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Smith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Blacksmith's helper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blacksmith	Blacksmith	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 helper	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Blacksmith	case
3	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Miner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miner	miner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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