Test 9 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight…
Did the mill-dam an the brooklet actually help the lassie, or no?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, help · To what, where: mill dam, lassie
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dam | det |
| 3 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dam | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mill | punct |
| 5 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 brooklet | det |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brooklet | det |
| 8 | brooklet | brooklet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 10 help | advmod |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lassie | det |
| 12 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 no | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 no | cc |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 help | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the mill dam | a brooklet obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help | present | the lassie | no obl; actually property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lassie=Beneficiary |
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 just laughed at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Naw | at her = she | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Naw, the mill-dam drowned the lassie in the cold flood, an the brooklet carried her body awa tae the sea and aw the Elves
The tree, 25 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 drowned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dam | det |
| 4 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dam | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 mill | punct |
| 6 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drowned | nsubj |
| 7 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lassie | det |
| 9 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drowned | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 flood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flood | det |
| 12 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flood | amod |
| 13 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drowned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 brooklet | det |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brooklet | det |
| 17 | brooklet | brooklet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drowned | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 awa | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 awa | compound |
| 21 | awa | awa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obj |
| 22 | tae | tae | ADP | Foreign=Yes | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 aw | cc |
| 26 | aw | aw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drowned | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Elves | det |
| 28 | Elves | Elf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 aw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | Naw | the lassie | the cold flood | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lassie=Patient | |||
| 2 | carry | past | a brooklet | brooklet's body awa | tae the sea | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awa=Theme | |||
| 3 | aw | past | Naw not said here | the Elves | tree rules |
Option 3
Naw, they just gied her a drink an sent her hame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gied | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gied | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 gied | advmod |
| 5 | gied | gi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gied | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drink | det |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gied | obj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sent | det |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hame | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hame | hame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gi | past | they | Naw | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Naw's hame | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hame=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Naw, they just sent her aff to look aboot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naw | Naw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naw | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | aff | aff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 10 | aboot | aboot | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | they | aff | Naw | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination aff=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | they not said here | aboot property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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