Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

Which boys did the giant bash on the stone, like, dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: do · To what, where: giant bash, stone

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bash	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bash	amod
6	bash	bash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dead	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	13 dead	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which boys	the giant bash		the stone			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bash=Eventuality

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 gardener's boy and Nix

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Nix	cc
6	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	conj

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

Option 2

the gardener's boy and the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cook	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the hen-wife's boy and the gardener's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hen	punct
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gardener	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gardener	det
9	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	conj
10	's	's	PART	_	9 gardener	case

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

Option 4

the cook's boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cook	case
4	boy	boy	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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