Test 1 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

Be honest, was the Carl of the Drab Coat a proper giant or just a messer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: honest Carl

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Carl	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Carl	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Carl	det
6	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Coat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Coat	det
9	Drab	Drab	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Coat	compound
10	Coat	Coat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Carl	nmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 giant	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 giant	amod
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Carl	appos
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 messer	cc
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 messer	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 messer	det
17	messer	messer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giant	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Carl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						honest property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the honest Carl				of the Drab Coat	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

A huge yellow-skinned giant who was no ordinary man at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giant	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 giant	amod
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skinned	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 yellow	punct
5	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 giant	amod
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 man	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 man	det
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a huge skinned giant	no ordinary man		all			tree rules

Option 2

A lazy, big-footed beggar pretending to be a giant of the hills

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beggar	det
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beggar	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lazy	punct
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 footed	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
6	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beggar	amod
7	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 beggar	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	12 giant	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 giant	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pretending	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hills	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hills	det
15	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 giant	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund	a lazy footed beggar not said here						tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	a lazy footed beggar not said here	a giant				of the hills	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Huge yellow-skinned giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skinned	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 yellow	punct
4	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A tall, grey-bearded man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tall	punct
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bearded	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grey	punct
6	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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