Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

Wicked, what were the Giants munching by the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked Giants · What happens: be, munch · To what, where: Wicked Giants

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Giants	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Giants	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Giants	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giants	det
6	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	munching	munch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Giants	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 munching	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Giants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Wicked Giants					tree rules
2	munch	gerund	the Wicked Giants not said here					by the fire	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

boiled fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a whole roast ox with gravy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ox	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ox	amod
3	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ox	compound
4	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 gravy	case
6	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ox	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

roast sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	compound
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

roast sheep and bread stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	compound
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stew	cc
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stew	compound
5	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	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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