Test 4 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Whit did the mammy shout when she saw the yarn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, mammy · What happens: shout, see · To what, where: yarn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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 shout	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shout	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mammy	det
4	mammy	mammy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shout	nsubj
5	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shout	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yarn	det
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · do-support	Whit						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past	mammy	the yarn					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yarn=Stimulus

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

Seven, seven, seven rhyme, sing it again and again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seven	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rhyme	punct
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rhyme	nsubj
6	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Seven	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sing	punct
8	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rhyme	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sing	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 sing	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 again	cc
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rhyme	present	seven						vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	sing speech: express	present	seven not said here	it			again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seven, seven, seven rhyme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seven	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seven	punct
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seven	appos
6	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seven	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

Nine, nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Nine	conj

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

Option 4

Seven!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Seven	punct

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

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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