Test 6 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

ngl, what's the deal with the boots of seven leagues?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1089 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre kills his own daughters by mistake and the boys flee» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 boots	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boots	det
9	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deal	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 leagues	case
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 leagues	nummod
12	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 boots	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ngl	the deal				with the boots of seven leagues	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

fast, super magic shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fast	punct
3	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	compound
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they let you walk super far really fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 walk	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	they						tree rules
2	walk	infinitive	you					far, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they make you run fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	they	you					tree rules
2	run	infinitive	you not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

huge steps, super tiring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 steps	amod
2	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tiring	punct
4	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tiring	amod
5	tiring	tiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steps	conj

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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