Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

Proper, why did the tailor scarper out of that massive bed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tailor · What happens: scarper · To what, where: massive bed

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 scarper	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 scarper	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scarper	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scarper	nsubj
7	scarper	scarper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 bed	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bed	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 bed	det
11	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bed	amod
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scarper	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 scarper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scarper	past · do-support	the tailor			that massive bed		properly property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it was too big for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for him = he; big property	tree rules

Option 2

it was too warm for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warm	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 warm	advmod
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for him = he; warm property	tree rules

Option 3

it was far too big and too heavy for him to lift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 big	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heavy	cc
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 heavy	advmod
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 big	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heavy	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lift	mark
12	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heavy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	big, far property	tree rules
2	be			for him = he	tree rules
3	lift	to-infinitive			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the blanket was too soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blanket	det
2	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soft	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 soft	advmod
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the blanket					soft property	tree rules

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