Test 2 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Wha's the wee dame who talks through the stone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wha, wee dame · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: wee dame, stone

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wha	Wha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dame	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dame	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dame	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dame	amod
5	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 talks	nsubj
7	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dame	acl:relcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 stone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talks	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dame	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wha	the wee dame					tree rules
2	talk	present	the wee dame			the stone			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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

The old wife of the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod

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

Option 2

The ugly old dame who lives inside the stone and sings all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dame	det
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dame	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dame	amod
4	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sings	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lives	nsubj
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dame	acl:relcl
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lives	cc
11	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sings	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 sings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the ugly old dame			the stone			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside stone=Location
2	sing speech: express	present	the ugly old dame				night	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Habetrot, the old spinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spinner	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spinner	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spinner	amod
5	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Habetrot	appos

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

Option 4

The witch of the wood, the girl's old aunt who lives in the hills

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 witch	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aunt	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 aunt	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 girl	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 aunt	amod
11	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 witch	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lives	nsubj
13	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 aunt	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the girl's old aunt			the hills			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location

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