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Test 7 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight…

Ken whit a tithe is? Sounds like a boring tax thing

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ken · What happens: be, sound

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Ken whit a tithe is?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ken	Ken	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whit	nsubj
2	whit	whit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tithe	det
4	tithe	tithe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whit	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whit	cop
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ken					whit property	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.

Sentence 2: Sounds like a boring tax thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	6 thing	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
5	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present						like a boring tax thing	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Aye, a sort o fairy fine they pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 fine	case
6	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fine	amod
7	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	nsubj
9	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	they	fairy fine not said here					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset
2	sort			fairy fine					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, it's like a tenth part they had to pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 part	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 part	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 part	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pay	mark
12	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a tenth part					tree rules
2	have	past	they	a tenth part not said here					tree rules
3	pay	to-infinitive	a tenth part not said here						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coin	det
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, it's a wee bit o siller ye gie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	7 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 siller	case
9	siller	siller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
10	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 gie	nsubj
11	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a wee bit				of siller	tree rules
2	gie	present	ye	a wee bit not said here					tree rules

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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