Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

Innit, which tree did the Giant bend down for him to nick cherries from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Innit, tree · What happens: do, bend down, nick · To what, where: Giant, cherries

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	obj
8	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 Giant	parataxis
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 bend	compound:prt
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 nick	mark
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nick	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 nick	mark
13	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bend	advcl
14	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nick	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	13 nick	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Innit	the Giant	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality
2	bend down	infinitive			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	nick	to-infinitive	tree	cherries	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cherry=Patient

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

a cherry tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a pear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pear	det
2	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

an ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ash	det
2	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a plum tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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