Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

What did she chuck down to block the giant, proper quick?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: chuck down, block

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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	4 chuck	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chuck	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	nsubj
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 chuck	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 block	mark
7	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chuck	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 quick	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quick	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 giant	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quick	amod
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 block	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck down	past · do-support	she					down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	block	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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

her golden comb from her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 comb	nmod:poss
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 comb	amod
3	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

her shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoe	nmod:poss
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

her brush and a bag of salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brush	nmod:poss
2	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bag	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brush	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bag	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

her comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 comb	nmod:poss
2	comb	comb	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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