Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

so like, what was the sword actually good for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: sword

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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	so	so	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
2	like	like	INTJ	_	7 sword	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 sword	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sword	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sword	det
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 good	nsubj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sword					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

beating enemy armies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 armies	compound
3	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	gerund		enemy armies					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location army=Theme

Option 2

nothing much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 nothing	amod

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

Option 3

killing the dragons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragons	det
3	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 killing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	gerund		the dragons					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme

Option 4

fighting big wars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wars	amod
3	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	gerund		big wars					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent

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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