Test 5 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight…
Hauf the Elves sang a wee song at the end, did they no?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hauf · What happens: sing, do · To what, where: wee song, end
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 259 «Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight back from Elfland» 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 | Hauf | Hauf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Elves | det |
| 3 | Elves | Elf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Hauf | conj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 song | det |
| 6 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 song | amod |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 they | det |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Hauf and the Elves | a wee song | at the end | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | Hauf | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
Aye, aboot the knight they lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 5 knight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knight | punct |
| 3 | aboot | aboot | ADP | _ | 5 knight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knight | det |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knight | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | they | the knight not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality |
Option 2
Naw, it wis aboot the bairn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wis | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wis | nsubj |
| 4 | wis | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | aboot | aboot | ADP | _ | 7 bairn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bairn | det |
| 7 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wis | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi | present | Naw | aboot the bairn | tree rules |
Option 3
Aye, a wee yin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 5 yin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aye | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 yin | det |
| 4 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yin | amod |
| 5 | yin | yin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Naw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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