Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

What did the soldier use to cut through the arms, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: use, cut

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 arms	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arms	det
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arms	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	the soldier						vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	cut	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here					through the arms and mate	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through arm=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

His sword and the iron tongs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tongs	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tongs	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tongs	compound
6	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sword	conj

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

Option 2

His dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dagger	nmod:poss
2	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The bright sword that his father gave him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sword	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sword	amod
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gave	obj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sword	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	his father	the bright sword	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Theme

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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