Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…

Ah, what made the giant wake up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make, wake up

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 wake	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past						giant property	tree rules
2	wake up	infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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 clatter of horse hooves on the cobbles of the courtyard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clatter	det
2	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hooves	case
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hooves	compound
5	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clatter	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 cobbles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cobbles	det
8	cobbles	cobble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hooves	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 courtyard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 courtyard	det
11	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cobbles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clatter		horse hooves on the cobbles of the courtyard						nom clatter «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The sound of the prince's horses kicking the loose stones outside the gate of the castle

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 horses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horses	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 prince	case
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sound	nmod
8	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 horses	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stones	det
10	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stones	amod
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kicking	obj
12	outside	outside	ADP	_	14 gate	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gate	det
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kicking	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	gerund	the prince's horses not said here	the loose stones		the gate of the castle			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Patient outside gate=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Horse hooves on stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hooves	compound
2	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 stones	case
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hooves	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A cart on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cart	nmod

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

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