Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

And the giant's like, the house is bad?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 bad	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 giant	case
5	like	like	INTJ	_	10 bad	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bad	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bad	cop
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the house					bad 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

Yeah, that's a really bad place to build a castle, so ridiculous

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 place	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 bad	advmod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 build	mark
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 place	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ridiculous	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 ridiculous	advmod
15	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a bad place	tree rules
2	build	to-infinitive		a castle	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product
3	be		that not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, cursed ground to build

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ground	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ground	punct
3	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ground	amod
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 build	mark
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ground	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	build	to-infinitive							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bad place to build it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 place	amod
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 build	mark
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 place	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		place					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, bad place to build it, the giant says, and then he leaves

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 place	amod
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 build	mark
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 place	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 build	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leaves	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 leaves	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 leaves	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leaves	nsubj
16	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	place		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	say speech: assert	present	the giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	present	he		then	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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