Test 10 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Whit did Habetrot dae at the wedding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: Habetrot, wedding

This is test 10 · ★ 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	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	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	dae	dae	X	Foreign=Yes	3 Habetrot	dep
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 wedding	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wedding	det
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	Habetrot		the wedding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habetrot=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sat in the corner and sang a long sad ditty, cursing the wheel and the bride

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sang	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 corner	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corner	det
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sat	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sang	cc
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ditty	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ditty	amod
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ditty	amod
10	ditty	ditty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cursing	punct
12	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sang	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wheel	det
14	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cursing	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bride	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bride	det
17	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wheel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Sat in the corner	a long sad ditty					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ditty=Theme
2	curse	gerund	Sat in the corner not said here	the wheel and the bride					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme

Option 2

Sang a ditty, dancing, and spun the yarn too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 spun	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ditty	det
3	ditty	ditty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sang	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dancing	punct
5	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ditty	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spun	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spun	cc
8	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yarn	det
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spun	obj
11	too	too	ADV	_	8 spun	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		a ditty and dancing					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ditty=Theme
2	spin	past		the yarn					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme

Option 3

Spun the wedding flax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flax	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flax	compound
4	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spun	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past		the wedding flax					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sang a ditty, dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ditty	det
3	ditty	ditty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sang	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dancing	punct
5	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ditty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		a ditty and dancing					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ditty=Theme

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