Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

What did the giant threaten if they tried to trick him again?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant, they · What happens: threaten, try, trick · To what, where: giant

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 threaten	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threaten	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threaten	nsubj
5	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 tried	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threaten	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 trick	mark
10	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trick	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 trick	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the giant			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	they			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	trick not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	giant	again	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 lowest stone would be the highest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 highest	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 highest	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 highest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 highest	det
7	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the lowest stone					high property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The highest stone would be the lowest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lowest	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lowest	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lowest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lowest	det
7	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the highest stone					low property	tree rules

Option 3

He would crush the castle walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crush	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crush	aux
3	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	compound
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	would	He	the castle walls					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He would take the castle and all their children and bury them under the hill

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 all	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 children	det:predet
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bury	cc
11	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bury	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	He	the castle					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument castle=Theme child=Destination
2	bury	infinitive	He not said here	children = child		the hill			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme under hill=Destination

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