Test 5 · ★ · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks…

what were the boots called, the fancy ones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boots · What happens: be, call · To what, where: boots, fancy ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1469 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks the Ogre, steals his boots and gold, and grows rich» 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	4 boots	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boots	det
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 boots	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ones	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
8	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 boots	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the boots					tree rules
2	call	participle	the boots not said here	the fancy ones					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 boots of seven leagues the Ogre wore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boots	det
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leagues	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 seven	case
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boots	nmod
5	leagues	league	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ogre	det
7	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wore	nsubj
8	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leagues	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	league	present	the boots of seven						tree rules
2	wear	past	the Ogre						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

boots of nine leagues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 leagues	case
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leagues	nummod
4	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 boots	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

boots of seven leagues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 leagues	case
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leagues	nummod
4	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 boots	nmod

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

Option 4

the boots that let the giant walk the whole land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boots	det
2	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walk	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boots	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 let	obj
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 land	amod
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	the boots	the giant					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
2	walk	infinitive	the boots	the whole land					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location land=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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