Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the pri…

Dead funny, whit wis the giant's face like when he heard the lad wanted the youngest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dead funny whit wis, lad · What happens: hear, want · To what, where: youngest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1322 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the prince and the giant's daughter escape on the blue-grey mare» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wis	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wis	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 funny	punct
4	whit	whit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wis	amod
5	wis	wi	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 face	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wis	nmod
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 heard	mark
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lad	det
15	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youngest	det
18	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 wanted	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Dead funny whit wis the giant's face						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	want	past	the lad	the youngest					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot young=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 · ← Mova's choice

it darkened like a thunderstorm coming ower the moor

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	2 darkened	nsubj
2	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 thunderstorm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thunderstorm	det
5	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 darkened	obl
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 thunderstorm	acl
7	ower	owe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 coming	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	darken	past	it					like a thunderstorm	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come	gerund	a thunderstorm not said here	the moor				owe property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it darkened

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	2 darkened	nsubj
2	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	darken	past	it						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

it fell

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	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP 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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