Test 1 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

So ken what the bairn did when she woke up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bairn · What happens: ken, do, wake up

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 262 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins a laird's bride, and he forbids her the spinning-wheel» 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	_	2 ken	advmod
2	ken	ken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bairn	det
5	bairn	bairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ken	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 woke	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 woke	nsubj
9	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 woke	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	ken	imperative	you not said here	tree rules
2	do	past	the bairn	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	wake up	past	bairn	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Ran back up the hill to find the cave and the wheel again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod
3	up	up	ADP	_	5 hill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ran	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ran	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wheel	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wheel	det
12	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cave	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	7 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run back	participle				the hill			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up hill=Trajectory
2	find	to-infinitive		the cave and the wheel			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Topic

Option 2

Ran home, weeping and tired, to find her mother's arms at the cottage door

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weeping	punct
4	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ran	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tired	cc
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weeping	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weeping	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arms	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 find	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
16	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	compound
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	participle			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weep	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	to-infinitive	her mother's arms	the cottage door		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent arm=Theme at door=Asset

Option 3

Walked to the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 mill	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mill	det
4	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past						to the mill result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mill=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ran home sharp-sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sharp	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sharp	punct
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	participle		sharp sharp				home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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