Test 9 · ★ · Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy st…

fam, where was the palace compared to the giants' castle?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: palace

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1237 «Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy steals a golden hen, but keeps going back into the palace, and the fox rescues the princess from the giants» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 palace	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 palace	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	appos
7	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 palace	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giants	det
10	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 castle	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 giants	case
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 compared	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the palace					tree rules
2	compare	participle		the palace not said here				to the giants's castle	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

the palace was on a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hill	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hill	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the palace			a hill			tree rules

Option 2

the palace was close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

it was next door

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 door	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 door	cop
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	next door					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the giants' castle was super far, like many days walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giants	det
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 castle	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 giants	case
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 far	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 far	cop
6	super	super	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walk	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 walk	mark
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walk	nsubj
12	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 far	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giants's castle					far, super property	tree rules
2	walk	present	many days						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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