Test 2 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

Bruv, what were those boots, like seriously?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: boots

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boots	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 boots	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boots	cop
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 boots	det
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bruv	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seriously	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 seriously	case
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 boots	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv and that boots	that boots				seriously 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

Seven-league boots that grew to fit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boots	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Seven	punct
3	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boots	compound
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fit	mark
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Seven league boots						tree rules
2	fit	to-infinitive	Seven league boots not said here						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Boots that were magic and fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 magic	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 magic	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 magic	cop
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fast	cc
6	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magic	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Boots					magic property	tree rules
2	be		Boots not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Seven-league boots that grew to fit whatever foot wore them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 league	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Seven	punct
3	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boots	compound
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wore	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fit	mark
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grew	advcl
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 foot	det:predet
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fit	obj
11	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	past	league boots		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fit	to-infinitive	league boots not said here	whatever foot	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	wear	past	league boots	them = they	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 4

Massive seven-league boots that grew and shrank to fit any leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boots	amod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 league	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 seven	punct
4	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boots	compound
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boots	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shrank	cc
9	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fit	mark
11	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shrank	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 leg	det
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	past	Massive league boots		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shrink	past	Massive league boots not said here		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fit	to-infinitive	Massive league boots not said here	any leg	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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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