Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

Did the giant want a grown man or a wee boy, naw?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: want, grow · To what, where: grown man

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 boy	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 naw	punct
13	naw	naw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the giant	a grown man or a wee boy and naw					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 first girl born at seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 girl	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 seven	case
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		the first girl not said here		seven			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The first boy when he is seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 seven	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seven	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seven	cop
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 boy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	boy	seven					tree rules

Option 3

A boy of seven years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boy	nmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The first boy the king's son has when he turns seven years of age

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	nmod
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 turns	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turns	nsubj
11	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 has	advcl
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turns	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 age	case
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the first boy the king's son						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn	present	boy				year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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