Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

bruv what's the answer to "what's the thing without an end", I'm stuck

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv, answer, I · What happens: be · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 thing	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 thing	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nmod
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stuck	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 stuck	nsubj
18	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 stuck	cop
19	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present	bruv	the answer			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the answer		without a end	to the thing	tree rules
3	is	present	I			stuck property	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

air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	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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