Test 7 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

Whit did the rebels dae when they saw it comin?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, rebels · What happens: do, see · To what, where: rebels, Whit

This is test 7 · ★ 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	2 did	obj
5	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	4 rebels	flat:foreign
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	comin	comin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the rebels					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebel=Eventuality
2	see	past	rebels = rebel	Whit				comin property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

Hid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hid	hid	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ran hame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	ran	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hame	amod
2	hame	hame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	participle						away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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