Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t…
wait, why did the giant get stuck when he tried to jump?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, giant, he · What happens: wait, do, get, try, jump
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | xcomp |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 tried | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tried | nsubj |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stuck | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 jump | mark |
| 13 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | present | the giant | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | try | past | he | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | jump not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice
caught on a branch as the tree swung
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 branch | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 branch | det |
| 4 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 caught | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 caught | obl |
| 8 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tree | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | a branch | as the tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swing | participle | the tree not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
in the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
under the cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | under | under | ADP | _ | 3 cart | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cart | det |
| 3 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
in the branches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 branches | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 branches | det |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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