Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…

bro, what was the calf even tied to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be, tie · To what, where: calf

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 calf	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 calf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calf	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 calf	det
6	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 tied	advmod
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 calf	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 tied	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the calf					tree rules
2	tie	participle		the calf not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 prince's right ankle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ankle	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 prince	case
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ankle	amod
5	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a silk thread tied to his left little toe and dragged along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thread	det
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thread	compound
3	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thread	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 toe	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toe	nmod:poss
7	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toe	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toe	amod
9	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dragged	cc
11	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tied	conj
12	along	along	ADV	_	11 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a silk thread not said here				to his left little toe	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to toe=Co-Patient
2	drag	participle						along property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the prince's left little toe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toe	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 prince	case
4	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toe	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toe	amod
6	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the prince's whole left leg up to the knee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leg	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 prince	case
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leg	amod
5	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leg	amod
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 leg	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 knee	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knee	det
10	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leg	nmod

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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