Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

so the king gives the crab a proper hard task, what was it

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: give, be · To what, where: proper hard task, crab, task

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 gives	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 task	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 task	amod
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 task	amod
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 task	parataxis
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the king	a proper hard task	the crab				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent crab=Recipient task=Theme
2	is a	past		task					tree rules

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

a gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

wall higher than the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 higher	obl:unmarked
2	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 higher	obl

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

Option 3

tower lower than the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lower	nsubj
2	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lower	obl

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

Option 4

a moat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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