Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

Whit did the prince say his faither had that was braver?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whit, prince, faither, that · What happens: do, say, have, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	parataxis
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 faither	nmod:poss
7	faither	faither	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 braver	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 braver	cop
11	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 had	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	the prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	prince's faither		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	that	brave 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

a braver steed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 steed	det
2	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 steed	amod
3	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a braver rod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rod	det
2	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 rod	amod
3	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a braver rod than the giant has

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rod	det
2	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 rod	amod
3	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 giant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rod	nmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a braver rod than the giant						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a better sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sword	det
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sword	amod
3	sword	sword	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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