Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become ste…

What's a mattock, my granddad said it's a tool?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: granddad · What happens: be, say · To what, where: mattock, tool · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2019 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become steps, a finger is lost, and the giant drowns» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mattock	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mattock	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mattock	det
4	mattock	mattock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mattock	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 granddad	nmod:poss
7	granddad	granddad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tool	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tool	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tool	det
12	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		a mattock	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my granddad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	granddad	a tool	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 sort of sword the giant wore on his belt when he went out walking to the loch

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wore	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sword	case
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wore	nsubj
7	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 belt	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 belt	nmod:poss
10	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wore	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 went	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wore	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 went	compound:prt
15	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 went	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 loch	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 loch	det
18	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past	a sort of sword		sort's belt		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	go out	past	sort				tree rules
3	walk	gerund	sort not said here			to the loch result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to loch=Result
4	sort			sword			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A small blade for cutting bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blade	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blade	amod
3	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 cutting	mark
5	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 blade	acl
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund	a small blade not said here	bread					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A digging tool with a big heavy head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tool	det
2	digging	digging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tool	compound
3	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 head	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 head	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tool	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A big heavy digging tool with a wide metal head, used by the giant to break rock and dig ditches for the house

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tool	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tool	amod
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tool	amod
4	digging	digging	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tool	compound
5	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 head	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 head	det
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 head	amod
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	compound
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tool	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tool	parataxis
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 giant	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 used	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 break	mark
17	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 giant	xcomp
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 break	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dig	cc
20	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 used	conj
21	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dig	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	participle		giant property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	to-infinitive	rock		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Patient
3	dig	present	ditches	for the house	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ditch=Result for house=Beneficiary

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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