Test 13 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Whit did the laird swear aboot the wheel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: swear

This is test 13 · ★ 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	5 swear	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swear	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 laird	det
4	laird	laird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swear	nsubj
5	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	aboot	aboot	ADP	_	8 wheel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wheel	det
8	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swear	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · do-support	Whit					aboot the wheel	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

She'd always touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	would	She	it				always property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd never touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	would	She	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 3

She'd never sing a note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sing	advmod
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 note	det
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sing speech: express	would	She	a note					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme

Option 4

She'd never sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sing	advmod
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sing speech: express	would	She						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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