Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…

Mate, what was the thing in the sack that saved them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, sack · What happens: be, save · To what, where: thing, sack, them

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1643 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new helpers join the ship and the king's fleet is blinded by fog» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sack	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sack	det
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saved	nsubj
11	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sack	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saved	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the thing		the sack			tree rules
2	save	past	the sack	them = they					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ✓ the right answer

Fog, which blocked the king's ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blocked	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blocked	nsubj
4	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ships	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past	Fog	the king's ships					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ship=Theme

Option 2

Smoke that hid the youth's ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ship	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 youth	case
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	Smoke	the youth's ship					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

Option 3

A sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Fog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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