Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t…
fr, what did the giants do when they spotted him in the morning?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, giants · What happens: do, spot · To what, where: fr
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giants | det |
| 6 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 spotted | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spotted | nsubj |
| 10 | spotted | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spotted | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spotted | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the giants | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spot | past | giants = giant | fr | morning | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
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
bowed to the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | participle | to the king | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to king=Pivot |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
took to their heels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 heels | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heels | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | to their heels result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
they all ran away as fast as they could
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ran | advmod |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | they | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
ran off quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 ran | compound:prt |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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