Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

the riddle about the dead carrying the living, what's the answer, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dead, riddle · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: living, answer

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 riddle	det
2	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 carrying	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dead	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 carrying	nsubj
6	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 riddle	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 living	det
8	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carrying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answer	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 answer	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answer	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 answer	det
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riddle	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answer	vocative
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 riddle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	the dead	the living					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
2	is a	present	the riddle and the answer	the answer				mate vocative	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 · ✓ the right answer

a ship with men inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ship	nmod
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 men	advmod

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

Option 2

a coffin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coffin	det
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a tree with birds inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tree	nmod
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 birds	advmod

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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