Test 4 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

Mate, what did the smith reckon the blade needed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smith · What happens: reckon, need · To what, where: Mate, blade

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2007 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a poor fisherman promises his first son to the sea-maiden, and the son sets out» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smith	det
6	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blade	det
9	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obj
10	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 blade	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the smith	Mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme blade=Attribute
2	need	participle		the blade not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Better iron and fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 iron	amod
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fire	cc
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 iron	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A proper strong fist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fist	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fist	amod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fist	amod
4	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Only a grown man of the giant's great size could wield it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 man	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wield	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 size	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wield	aux
12	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wield	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wield	could	a grown man of the giant's great size	size					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A proper strong fist and a steady hand to hold it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fist	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fist	amod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fist	amod
4	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hand	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hand	det
7	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fist	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hand	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	to-infinitive		hand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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