Test 9 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

Wis the bride feart she'd no be guid at the wheel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wheel

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wis	Wis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feart	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feart	compound
4	feart	feart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wis	appos
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 'd	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feart	acl:relcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 guid	det
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 guid	cop
9	guid	guid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 'd	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 wheel	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wheel	det
12	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guid	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive				the wheel		guid property	tree rules

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

Nae, she was no feart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nae	Nae	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feart	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feart	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feart	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 feart	det
6	feart	feart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nae	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nae	no feart					tree rules

Option 2

Aye, she was feart of the wheel and the wedding night too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 feart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feart	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feart	cop
5	feart	feart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wheel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wheel	det
8	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feart	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	compound
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feart	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	feart and the wedding night				of the wheel	tree rules

Option 3

Nae, no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nae	Nae	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nae	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Nae	discourse

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, she was feart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 feart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feart	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feart	cop
5	feart	feart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	feart					tree rules

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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