Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…
Fam, what did the Giant bash the bed with at midnight?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do · To what, where: Giant bash
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bash | det |
| 6 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bash | amod |
| 7 | bash | bash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bed | det |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 12 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fam | the Giant bash | midnight | the bed obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bash=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
a long wooden pole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pole | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pole | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pole | amod |
| 4 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a long heavy iron chain from the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chain | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chain | amod |
| 3 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chain | amod |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chain | compound |
| 5 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a heavy iron bar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bar | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bar | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bar | compound |
| 4 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a heavy iron bar from the forge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bar | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bar | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bar | compound |
| 4 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 forge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forge | det |
| 7 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bar | nmod |
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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