Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with l…

Lush, so what did the boy use to cling on, like, his special trainers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: use, cling on · To what, where: Lush

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1704 «Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess» 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	Lush	Lush	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 use	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 use	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 use	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	nsubj
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lush	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cling	mark
10	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 use	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 cling	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	8 use	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trainers	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 trainers	nmod:poss
16	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trainers	amod
17	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	the boy	Lush				boy's special trainers obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	cling on	to-infinitive	the boy not said here						vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: 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

Iron nails in boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nails	compound
2	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 boots	case
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nails	nmod

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

Option 2

Lynx fur on hands and feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fur	compound
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 hands	case
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fur	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feet	cc
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hands	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lynx claws on hands and feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 claws	compound
2	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 hands	case
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 claws	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feet	cc
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 claws	conj

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

Option 4

Lynx claws strapped firmly onto his hands, feet, and both knees for extra grip

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 claws	compound
2	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strapped	nsubj
3	strapped	strap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	3 strapped	advmod
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strapped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feet	punct
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hands	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knees	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knees	cc
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 knees	det
13	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strapped	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 grip	case
15	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grip	amod
16	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strap	past	Lynx claws	both knees				for extra grip; onto his hands and feet; firmly property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient onto hand=Co-Patient

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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