Test 14 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Where did the flax go aff tae?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flax · What happens: go · To what, where: aff

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flax	det
4	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	aff	aff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obj
7	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	6 aff	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the flax	aff					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aff=Theme

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

Tae the wee glen, aye, and there it was spun in the cave by her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tae	Tae	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glen	det
3	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glen	amod
4	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tae	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 aye	punct
6	aye	aye	INTJ	_	1 Tae	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spun	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spun	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 spun	expl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spun	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spun	aux:pass
12	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tae	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cave	det
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spun	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spun	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · passive	Tae	glen		the cave; there			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tae Habetrot, to spin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tae	Tae	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tae	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spin	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spin	mark
5	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tae	parataxis

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

Option 3

Tae the cave in the hill where Habetrot sits and spins the flax wi' her kin

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tae	Tae	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cave	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sits	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sits	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 sits	advmod
8	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sits	nsubj
9	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spins	cc
11	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sits	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wi	det
13	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wi	compound
14	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spins	obj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 wi	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 kin	nmod:poss
17	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the Tae cave			the hill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hill=Location
2	spin	present	the Tae cave not said here	the flax wi					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent wi=Theme kin=Result

Option 4

Tae the laird's hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tae	Tae	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 laird	det
3	laird	laird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hall	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 laird	case
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tae	appos

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

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