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Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the cal…

Whit did the boy dae wi the bread? Ah, he shared it!

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do, share · To what, where: boy, bread

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 260 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the calf dies, the boy finds a princess» 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: Whit did the boy dae wi the bread?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	4 boy	dep
6	wi	wi	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the boy				wi the bread	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality

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: Ah, he shared it!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 shared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	nsubj
4	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 shared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	Whit	bread					tree rules

The options

Option 1

He broke it in twae and gied the bigger half tae the wee calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 twae	case
5	twae	twae	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gied	cc
7	gied	gi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 half	det
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 half	amod
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 gied	obj
11	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	14 calf	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 calf	det
13	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 calf	amod
14	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	He	it		twae			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
2	gi	past	He not said here	the bigger half				tae the wee calf	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He broke it in twae for the calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 twae	case
5	twae	twae	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 calf	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 calf	det
8	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	He	it		twae		for the calf	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 3

He split it in half for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 split	nsubj
2	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 split	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 half	case
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 split	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	He	it		half		for half	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He kept it aw for himsel and gied the calf nothing at aw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	aw	aw	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 himsel	case
6	himsel	himsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gied	cc
8	gied	gi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nothing	det
10	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	compound
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 gied	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 aw	case
13	aw	aw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He	it				for himsel	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	gi	past	He not said here	nothing		aw			tree rules

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