Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…
Proper, what guards the castle gate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: guard · To what, where: castle gate
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1501 «Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays giants, breaks the spell and wins the duke's daughter» 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 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 guards | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proper | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 guards | nsubj |
| 4 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gate | compound |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guards | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 guards | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | present | the castle gate | properly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |
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
two lions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 lions | nummod |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a dozen armed guards with swords
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dozen | det |
| 2 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 guards | nummod |
| 3 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guards | amod |
| 4 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 swords | case |
| 6 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guards | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
two fiery griffins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 griffins | nummod |
| 2 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 griffins | amod |
| 3 | griffins | griffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
two iron serpents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 serpents | nummod |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serpents | compound |
| 3 | serpents | serpent | 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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