Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Whit did the laird say he wanted in his wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, laird · What happens: do, say, want · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the laird		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	laird	in laird's wife	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

A kind heart, aye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heart	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heart	punct
5	aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 heart	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A guid spinner, aye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spinner	det
2	guid	guid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spinner	amod
3	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spinner	punct
5	aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 spinner	discourse

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

Option 3

A guid cook, a guid spinner, and a lass who sings and dances bonnie at the fair

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cook	det
2	guid	guid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cook	amod
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spinner	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spinner	det
6	guid	guid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spinner	amod
7	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cook	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lass	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lass	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lass	det
11	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cook	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sings	nsubj
13	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lass	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dances	cc
15	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sings	conj
16	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dances	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 fair	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fair	det
19	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dances	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	a lass						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	dance	present	a lass not said here	bonnie		the fair			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bonnie=Theme

Option 4

A guid spinner who can spin flax white and fine, and keep his house warm and bright

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spinner	det
2	guid	guid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spinner	amod
3	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spin	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 spin	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spin	aux
6	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spin	obj
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flax	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fine	cc
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 white	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 keep	cc
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 spin	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 house	nmod:poss
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bright	cc
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 warm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	can	a guid spinner	flax					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	a guid spinner not said here	spinner's house				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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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