Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Whit did the laird see through the stone?

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

This is test 11 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 laird	det
4	laird	laird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laird	acl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the laird					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laird=Eventuality
2	see	infinitive	the laird not said here			the stone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

The laird's own mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 laird	det
2	laird	laird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 laird	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Habetrot and her wicked kin dancing about the fire in the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kin	cc
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kin	nmod:poss
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kin	amod
5	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Habetrot	conj
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kin	acl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund	her wicked kin not said here			the cave		about the fire	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fire=Location

Option 3

Habetrot spinning yarn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 yarn	amod
3	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Habetrot	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Habetrot jumping and singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jumping	nsubj
2	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 singing	cc
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 jumping	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	gerund	Habetrot						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Habetrot not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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