Test 6 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight…

Whit's the broom bush, is it just a dead plant or whit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: be · To what, where: broom bush, dead plant

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bush	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bush	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bush	det
4	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bush	compound
5	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plant	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 plant	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plant	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 plant	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plant	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plant	amod
12	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bush	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 whit	cc
14	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plant	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Whit	the broom bush					tree rules
2	is a	present	Whit	a dead plant or whit					tree rules

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

It's a shrub fae the Nether world wi black leaves, an Janet picked some tae gie tae the knights at the cross at midnight

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shrub	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shrub	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shrub	det
4	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	fae	fae	X	Foreign=Yes	4 shrub	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	Nether	nether	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fae	appos
9	wi	wi	X	Foreign=Yes	5 fae	appos
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaves	amod
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wi	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 picked	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Janet	det
14	Janet	Janet	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 picked	nsubj
15	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shrub	parataxis
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 tae	det
17	tae	tae	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gie	nsubj
18	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 picked	ccomp
19	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	21 knights	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 knights	det
21	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 picked	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 cross	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cross	det
24	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 picked	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 midnight	case
26	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cross	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a shrub			tree rules
2	pick	past	a Janet		the cross at midnight	tae the knights	tree rules
3	gie	present	some tae				tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's a bush wi yellow flowers, Janet picked some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flowers	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 flowers	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bush	det
4	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	nsubj
5	wi	wi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	amod
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	amod
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flowers	punct
9	Janet	Janet	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 picked	nsubj
10	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flowers	acl:relcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	wi yellow flowers					tree rules
2	pick	past	Janet	some					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

Option 3

It's a bush o red berries, she ate some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bush	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bush	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bush	det
4	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 berries	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 berries	amod
7	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bush	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bush	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a bush				of red berries	tree rules
2	eat	past	she	some					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

Option 4

It's a hedge fae the mill-dam, nae flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hedge	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hedge	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hedge	det
4	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	fae	fae	X	Foreign=Yes	4 hedge	appos
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dam	det
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dam	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 mill	punct
9	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fae	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flowers	punct
11	nae	nae	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flowers	amod
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hedge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a hedge and nae flowers					tree rules

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