Test 7 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

What did the mum sing to her nipper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: mum sing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	5 sing	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	compound
5	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 nipper	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nipper	nmod:poss
8	nipper	nipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the mum sing				to her nipper	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality

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 right answer

Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hush	hush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Hush	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hush	punct
4	hush	hush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hush	conj
5	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 hush	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pet	punct
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pet	amod
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hush	parataxis
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Hush	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hush	imperative	you not said here	ye				ye obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient
2	hush	infinitive	you not said here	ye					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient

Option 2

Bonnie lad, bonnie lad, sleep ye now the night is long and dark tonight

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bonnie	bonnie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lad	amod
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct
4	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lad	compound
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lad	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sleep	punct
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lad	conj
8	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 lad	nsubj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 long	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 long	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lad	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dark	cc
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	conj
16	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 long	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the night				now; tonight	long property	tree rules
2	be		the night not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bye	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bye	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 a	punct
5	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rock	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 baby	punct
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rock	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rock	conj

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

Option 4

Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, the Douglas is coming up the hill

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hush	hush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Hush	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hush	punct
4	hush	hush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hush	conj
5	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 hush	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pet	punct
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pet	amod
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hush	vocative
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 hush	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 coming	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Douglas	det
12	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 coming	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 coming	aux
14	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Hush	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	17 hill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hush	imperative	you not said here	ye		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient
2	hush	infinitive	you not said here	ye	little pet vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient
3	come up	present · progressive	the Douglas	the hill		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme

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