Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight…

So they're yer maist fairy folk, but the Good Folk are a different crowd?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, Good Folk · What happens: be · To what, where: yer fairy folk, different crowd

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 folk	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 folk	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 folk	cop
4	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 folk	amod
5	maist	maist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fairy	compound
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 folk	compound
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crowd	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 crowd	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Folk	det
11	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Folk	amod
12	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crowd	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 crowd	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 crowd	det
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crowd	amod
16	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 folk	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 folk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	yer fairy folk but a different crowd					tree rules
2	is a	present	the Good Folk	a different crowd					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

Naw, they're aw the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 same	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 same	cop
5	aw	aw	ADP	_	7 same	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Naw					same property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, the Good Folk are in the Stars story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	10 story	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Folk	det
4	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Folk	amod
5	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 story	compound
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Good Folk			the Stars story			tree rules

Option 3

Aye, the Good Folk are the wee brooklet folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	10 folk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Folk	det
4	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Folk	amod
5	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 folk	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 folk	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 folk	det
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 folk	amod
9	brooklet	brooklet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 folk	compound
10	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Good Folk	the wee brooklet folk					tree rules

Option 4

Naw, the Good Folk are the Elves wi the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wi	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Folk	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Folk	det
4	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Folk	amod
5	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Naw	appos
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Elves	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Elves	det
8	Elves	Elf	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 wi	nsubj
9	wi	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wi	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Elves					tree rules
2	wi	past	Naw	the horses					tree rules

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