Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…

Innit weird that the long-legged man walks so far?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: legged man · What happens: walk

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 weird	compound
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 walks	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 legged	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
7	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walks	nsubj
9	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 weird	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 walks	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	the legged man					far property	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

Yeah, he takes giant steps across the whole land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 takes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 takes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steps	amod
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 takes	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	10 land	case
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	4 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	he	giant steps		the whole land			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, one foot in the north, one in the south, and he still walks all day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 foot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 foot	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 foot	nummod
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foot	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 north	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 south	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 south	det
12	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walks	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walks	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walks	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 walks	advmod
17	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 foot	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walks	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	he				still; day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he just takes a short walk each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 takes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 takes	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 takes	advmod
5	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 walk	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 walk	amod
8	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 takes	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 takes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	he	a short walk			morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one foot in the north, one in the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 foot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 foot	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 foot	nummod
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foot	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 foot	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 south	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 south	det
12	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod

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

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