Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

wait, the ettin had three heads, how many did the hero chop off, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ettin, hero · What happens: wait, have, chop off · To what, where: three heads, many

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ettin	det
4	ettin	ettin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 heads	nummod
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chop	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chop	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 chop	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hero	det
13	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chop	nsubj
14	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 chop	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 proper	punct
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chop	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the ettin	three heads	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	chop off	past · do-support	the hero	many	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient

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

just the top one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

all of the heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 heads	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heads	det
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 all	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

all three of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 three	nmod

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

Option 4

he chopped off the first two only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	nsubj
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 chopped	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 two	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 two	amod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 chopped	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 two	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	he	the first two					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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