Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

Lol, what tune was the tailor singing while lugging the massive tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tailor · What happens: be, sing, lug · To what, where: tailor, massive tree

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 tailor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tailor	nsubj
4	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tailor	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tailor	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tailor	det
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 tailor	acl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 lugging	mark
10	lugging	lug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 singing	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lugging	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tailor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the tailor	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the tailor not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lug	gerund	the tailor not said here	the massive tree	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

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

a song about three tailors who rode out at the gate of the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	nsubj
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tailors	nummod
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rode	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rode	nsubj
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 rode	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride out	past	a song			the gate of the town			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a hymn about the King's palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hymn	det
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 palace	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hymn	nmod

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

Option 3

a song about three tailors and their gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tailors	nummod
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 song	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gate	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gate	nmod:poss
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tailors	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"There rode three tailors out at the gate"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 rode	expl
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tailors	nummod
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rode	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride out in a quote	past		three tailors		the gate; there		out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Theme

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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