Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…
Gutted for Placida, what did she have to climb to get the hay?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Placida · What happens: gut, have, climb, get · To what, where: Placida, hay
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 Placida | case |
| 3 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gutted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 have | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Placida | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 climb | mark |
| 10 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 climb | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hay | det |
| 14 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | for Placida | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past · do-support | Placida | Placida | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | Placida not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Placida not said here | the hay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hay=Stimulus |
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
a very tall wooden ladder leaning on the barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ladder | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 tall | advmod |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ladder | amod |
| 4 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ladder | amod |
| 5 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ladder | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 barn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 barn | det |
| 9 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | gerund | a tall wooden ladder not said here | the barn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on barn=Location |
Option 2
a great rope ladder hanging from the high loft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ladder | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ladder | amod |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ladder | compound |
| 4 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ladder | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 loft | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loft | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 loft | amod |
| 9 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | a great rope ladder not said here | the high loft | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a long ladder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ladder | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ladder | amod |
| 3 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a tall stool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stool | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stool | amod |
| 3 | stool | stool | 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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