Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…
lol, what's a cart-rope when it's at home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rope · What happens: be · To what, where: cart rope, home
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1959 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the captives, beats the two-headed giant Thunderdell, then wins a duke's daughter from a giant and conjurer» 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 8 rope | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 rope | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rope | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 6 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rope | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 cart | punct |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 home | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 home | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 home | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rope | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 rope | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a cart rope | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | rope | home | tree rules |
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 rope made for big wagons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rope | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wagons | case |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wagons | amod |
| 6 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a rope not said here | for big wagons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for wagon=Asset |
Option 2
a chain made of iron links for locking the castle gates shut at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chain | det |
| 2 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chain | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 links | case |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 links | compound |
| 6 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 locking | mark |
| 8 | locking | lock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gates | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gates | compound |
| 11 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 locking | obj |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a chain not said here | of iron links | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | lock | gerund | the castle gates | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | |||||
| 3 | shut | present | a chain | night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a thick rope for pulling carts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rope | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rope | amod |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 pulling | mark |
| 5 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rope | acl |
| 6 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | gerund | a thick rope not said here | carts | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme |
Option 4
a small wooden tool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tool | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tool | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tool | amod |
| 4 | tool | tool | 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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