Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…

Sound, what did the prince chuck to make a wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sound · What happens: do, make · To what, where: prince chuck, wood

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape 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	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chuck	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	compound
7	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Sound	the prince chuck					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	Sound not said here	a wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product

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

A short sharp knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A short sharp knife that the magician had given him as a gift at the castle

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj:pass
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 given	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magician	det
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 given	iobj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 gift	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gift	det
13	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		a short sharp knife	him = he	the castle		as a gift	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Theme at castle=Asset

Option 3

A small iron blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blade	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blade	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blade	compound
4	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A short sharp knife he had taken from his belt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taken	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 knife	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 belt	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 belt	nmod:poss
10	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	he	a short sharp knife not said here		his belt			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from belt=Initial_Location

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